<p>Speaking as a Swarthmore alumnus, I should say that there is no finer school anywhere than Haverford. I was very happy to be able to take courses there and at Bryn Mawr (including Italian, which Swat did not offer). The teaching is extraordinary, the students too, and the honor code is not like an ordinary honor code (no cheating, etc.) but works towards creating a real intellectual environment in which faculty and students respect each other and create a real community of scholars – which is why Haverford students speak so highly of it. The internal democracy is something that students especially like. You cannot do better than go to Haverford, especially when compared to the extreme bureaucratic disinterest and even contempt towards first and second-year undergraduates that you will find at many large universities, including the most prestigious. You can take courses at Bryn Mawr and Swat as well, and any courses not offered by any of the three (Portuguese for example, who knows why) you can take at Penn – that and the library facilities give you the best of all possible worlds.</p>