The Liberal Arts Colleges...

bclintonk
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:11:46 +0000

Haverford is by far the most academically rigorous of the schools you’re considering; better, IMO, than U Illinois or U Washington, though you could certainly do some serious math at either of those two schools. Haverford’s consortium relationship with Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Penn is also a huge plus. Your academic opportunities will be greatest there, by far.

As for location, I personally would pick Haverford (20 minutes by train from center city Philadelphia and as little as 90 minutes from New York City) over Seattle (rain), Champaign-Urbana (cornfields), Northfield MN (cornfields and frigid winters) or Rhodes (Deep South, not my cup of tea).