<p>nceph,</p>
<p>FWIW, my DD is in a very good grad program in a foreign language, a second year doctoral student…she double majored at Swat, and did not do the Honors program in either. I didn’t get the sense that that hurt her in any way when she applied.</p>
<p>At this point, I think she is glad she did the “regular” degree, as she likes the typical larger classroom approach to learning. Of course her upper level courses at Swarthmore involved smaller settings, and now all of her grad classes are very small seminars. </p>
<p>Clearly the tutorial system does appeal in some ways to folks, but it has a sort of stress in that you simply cannot hide! My DH earned a degree from Oxford and describes the pressures as pretty intense. I don’t think I would have liked that method, but some people clearly thrive in that sort of environment.</p>