Photo for Swarthmore?

allgood2011
Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:48:37 +0000

no, i won’t send one for certain, i was just checking. i wouldn’t consider sending unless they’d asked.

pomona has an optional photo (to humanize the process), and until a few years ago brown did, too.

i have a lot of respect for pomona, probably one of my fav LACs, and if a school of their calibre and philosophy is ok with it, i am comfortable, too. i trust them. and i would also trust swat or a similar school that would request one.

my mom applied to colleges 25 or so years ago, and photos were pretty typical then. everyone sent in their formal yearbook headshots. and back then, brown made you handwrite your essays and create your own activity charts…no typing on the personal parts of the app. handwritten only. can you imagine if we had to do that now?

i think people could even have a personal reaction/impression based on someone’s handwriting, just like you could with a photo.