Swarthmore is 15th "Most Rigorous" College

buddyglass
Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:11:06 +0000

you may well be right that swat is the most rigorous, but until youve attended every college in the country you might at least want to acknowledge that the point is in question. i know its perceived as one of the toughest–and rightfully so, i’d assume–but ive heard the same of uchicago and we cant really be sure that, say, the dartmouth college philosophy department doesnt assign more papers/have tougher grading standards than swat’s until we’ve heard from a hoard of people who’ve attended both. a chart plotting incoming sat scores against college gpa would help, but we’d also need to know how much work is assigned to be sure that the lower grades reflect quantity of work in addition to tougher grading policies. famously grueling, sure, but we cant really confidently assert any of this.