<p>I agree with every single thing that you’ve said (HC alum). I couldn’t let it go either, and just returned from a dinner discussion covering all the same points with my CMC grad husband who obviously doesn’t realize what he missed! Much of the positive that ID admits about other schools is accompanied by something that turns it into a backhanded compliment instead. And I find it amazing that he would even comment on Pomona’s so-called aloofness when everything he says about Swarthmore is loaded with snobbery. It may be true that Swarthmore students don’t care about the Tri-Co consortium one way or another–but there is a very special elitism that is very much in evidence at Swarthmore. Perhaps, like a tree falling in a forest, if there’s no one else there to hear it… it doesn’t exist! Pomona’s “snobbery” is only mentioned because they have neighbors as witnesses!
My daughter is having a wonderful educational experience at Swarthmore, and I hope in time that she will also sentimentally tear up at the mention of first collection (as opposed to the other kind of tearing up).
Here comes the fork!</p>