Merit vs. Need-blind marketing

mini
Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:14:08 +0000

You will find more music and theatre, and likely more art and dance at Grinnell than at Swarthmore, and probably deeper language departments as well. (Swarthmore, of course, has very renowned faculty in the social sciences. And Swat’s location (to me) is better, though nowhere close to $120,000 better. (If you were to spend even a fraction of that on her education above and beyond what Grinnell costs – round the world trips, two years saving the world in Africa, a year studying modern dance in Paris, a visit to Siberia to do ecological research on yaks, etc., etc. there really would be no reasonable comparison in the quality of HER education. That’s what counts - not the school - but the education she gets out of it.)