<p>Wouldn’t be the first time I got lost in translation but I read the text as it was.</p>
<p>Smith’s Government program is terrific. My D has a first-job-after-college in D.C. right now that she likely would not have gotten without her Smith and Picker Program experiences. I tend to downplay things like “name” and “prestige” but the outfit she’s at is full of people with degrees from places like Swarthmore, Columbia, and Harvard…being from Smith certainly didn’t hurt her.</p>
<p>As for Mount Holyoke, it’s certainly more rural…one might say “bucolic”…and my D would have gone nuts if she had gone there. Whether Northampton (Smith) was big enough for her was one of the key questions when she was checking out colleges and it passed with flying colors, though I think by senior year, what with a junior year split between D.C. and Europe, she began to chafe at the Smith “bubble,” however wonderful and nurturing that bubble is.</p>