<p>If anyone should care, as someone who doesn’t have a horse in this race but got started looking at both the Swarthmore and Haverford boards from time to time a couple years ago when my son was applying to college (and visited both schools), I’d have to say that the posts that I’ve read over the years from HC Alum have tended (as far as I can recall), at least in the main, to be informative, even-handed, and (from the standpoint of potential students and their parents) helpful.</p>
<p>Sure, HC Alum may go a little over the top at times. But so do virtually all of us who appear on these boards (even, to take but one example, the seemingly indefatigable and often exceedingly helpful idad). But, hey, such passages tend to be pretty self-evident (I suspect that, with at least some of them, even he might even have chosen to word them a bit differently in retrospect) and, when you come to one of them, you can just turn the volume down.</p>