What makes Swarthmore so popular?

nngmm
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:22:19 +0000

I know very few people who genuinely embody those characteristics. And it seems to me that there are very few people (at least at age 17) who really crave learning and find a kind of beauty in it.

You are unlucky then… If you get accepted, you’ll meet plenty of them.

But I don’t think Swarthmore is nearly as “main stream” as, say, Stanford. Most of the “main stream” students and parents have never heard of it.