what are my chances?

interesteddad
Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:47:33 +0000

I don’t want to get that specific. It’s a long way outside of Boston (solid hour to Logan if it’s not rush hour), not one of the 128 corridor schools that anyone has heard of. Just a regional public high school serving three small towns. Our town only has a population of about 10,000. I’m pretty sure she was the first student from her high school that had ever applied to Swarthmore…or at least as far back as anyone could remember.

It’s a decent school, probably ranked somewhere in the top third to quarter of Massachusetts high schools, but nowhere near the elite levels like the Newton Souths or Hamilton/Wenhams or the other ritzy suburban schools.