<p>nngmm,</p>
<p>You are right about this. My daughter tried to get a copy of her 1st term grades for grad school in her senior year, and was told then that they no longer existed. She did not save a copy of the grades, which I believe she was able to acess from home that first winter break. Ultimately it didn’t have a negative impact, but I know she wished she’d copied them.</p>
<p>Some other differences between Haverford and Swarthmore:</p>
<p>–Swarthmore offers engineering, Haverford does not
–Swarthmore has two male fraternities, Haverford has none (Neither has sororities)
–Haverford has much easier access to Bryn Mawr classes and facilities, since the two colleges are next door to one another
–Haverford has a very competitive DIII cross country and track program, with a full-scale indoor track facility. Swat’s teams are improving but their indoor track is suited only for practice.</p>
<p>Haverford is on the Main Line. Swat is not. Haverford has nice restaurants nearby. Swat does not unless you count the restaurants in Springfield all right…</p>
<p>When I last visited with my son, we ate at an Italian restaurant in a shopping plaza adjacent to (but not in ) the mall. The salad was sort of stale…although the rest of the food was pretty good Italian - claimed to be Tuscan food. Had indigestion after that. There’s a Thai place in that shopping center. Gotta try that one on the next visit.</p>
<p>I thought the Italian place was going to be better than it was. I had the Osso Busco, which was a little disappointing. Huge portions: more than I could eat in two meals. If I go back, I would stick to the lighter, simple dishes.</p>
<p>The Thai place is pretty good. Pleasant atmosphere. Quality food. Smallish portions for passing all the entrees around the table – each order is really only enough for two people to share.</p>
<p>any more information to share?</p>
<p>I think Haverford is further from Philly than Swat is. With the rising SEPTA fares that makes a difference how many times you go to Philly. Philly is a source of entertainment and food for many kids at Swat.</p>
<p>Can you have a car at either of them (as a frosh)?
I live in Philly, so it would be a big deal either way.</p>
<p>Not on campus, no, unless you have some very good reason to have one. The parking spaces in the town are $50 a month.</p>
<p>When I stayed at Haverford, I was told that freshmen are not allowed to have cars, but some freshmen sneak their cars into the parking lot anyways.</p>
<p>I don’t think sneaking cars in could last for more than a day or two given how small the parking lots are and, at least at Swarthmore, how the campus security is right there.</p>
<p>i’m a freshman at haverford (don’t ask why i wandered onto the swat boards…), and some freshman do sneak their cars on campus because you can park in the south lot, which is the visitors’ parking lot… but i can only think of one or two people that i know who do because it’s kind of far from everything.</p>
<p><i>So, does this mean that Swarthmore HAS proctored exams?</i></p>
<p>Yes and no. Exams in introductory courses are generally proctored, but during my junior and senior years exams in my humanities classes completely disappeared to be entirely replaced by papers. I still had exams in my physics classes (I was a physics minor) and exams in upper-level and even mid-level physics classes were all take-home; some were even unlimited-time take-home.</p>