what makes swarthmore special

superlax09
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:20:08 +0000

I am African-American and I attended discovery weekend (I met you Sopralto86 - we are already friends on facebook I just changed my CC username). Anyway both of the comments above pretty much captured the experience I had when I visited Swat but I also wanted to add how nice the dorm community was. I stayed in Wharton in a freshman quad and not only were all 4 girls wonderful and adopted all the “specs” as their own but everyone in the hall was so welcoming! I ended up hanging out all night with some people down the hall who just wandered in to say hi! I still keep in contact with them, along with the girls in the quad, and it’s even cooler that I will actually be attending school with them next year!!

I would definitely say that Discovery Weekend is the reason I ended up applying to Swat ED (or even applying at all). I must admit, initially, Swat was not on my short list but after that weekend I knew I belonged there!