<p>ID… thanks for your response.</p>
<p>flower girl: As most people here don’t want to hear about an honor code, I’m not going to take up more Swat real estate discussing it other than to address your question. If you’re familiar with the medical profession, the HC honor code is like the Hippocratic Oath or the Code of Maimonides. I don’t know of any physicians that “have to check” these oaths to make sure they’re good doctors… but they’re nice to have as it describes the standards of your community or profession. In addition, “can honor be codified” has been debated at HC for the last 100 years and I don’t believe that there is much a non-HC person can say to a HC grad regarding such issues that has not already been discussed including whether it is needed at all. </p>
<p>I am actually very familiar with bio at all 3 schools as my sister went to BMC and brother to Swat and the difference in bio departments between SC and HC was a reason why I chose the latter (others being honor code, Bi-co resources and better pre-med record at top med schools… in fairness, Swat has a better record sending kids to top law schools, is more “activist”, has a better dining center, has a bell tower and its performing arts are astounding). When deciding on LACs, after campus fit and geography, the next thing you should investigate are your fields of interest (the department web pages). If you major in biochem at BMC, you should try to take as many courses at HC because the offerings are more rigorous… at least according to some BMC friends who were “shocked” by the pace of the senior seminars we took together. Neurobiology is a bi-college concentration and you’ll be taking a few classes at HC.</p>