It’s kind of a silly question because “Harvard Students” are not so uniform that they all think of other people in the same way. It’s also silly to say the students would only think of or about students from local colleges. Harvard is just a school, many lovely people from all over the nation attend Harvard… and some jerks do too. Ditto Swarthmore. There is conformity in the uniform excellence of their academic records but otherwise it’s both unwise and unfair to expect all students from one school to have the same opinion on a certain topic.
OP - I think what you’re asking is “is Swarthmore as good as Harvard?” and you won’t get a consensus here. I know you’ve started a thread debating whether you should transfer to Swat or go to Michigan and I have some unpalatable advice for you. Stop asking other people’s opinions on what you should do. It’s your life - you have a couple of great choices. Just choose one and love it. Life is what happens after that point. I have close friends who graduated from Harvard, Michigan, Swarthmore, Stanford, UCLA, Cal State Long Beach and the University of Houston. They are all happy and successful and no one cares where the other ones went to school.