what makes swarthmore special

momof3sons
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:44:36 +0000

mikecerang,
Participating in Swarthmore’s Honors Program is somewhat akin to going to graduate school two years early. The Honors Seminars are small, 8-12 students generally, the workload is particularly intense, and the reward of having outside professors who are expert in their field write and evaluate your final exam and papers is exhilarating. It isn’t for everyone.

Plainsman, I would also like to reply to your comment. My S looked at “all the usual suspects,” HYP, AWS, etc. He was truly extremely competitive at all of them. However, when he visited Swarthmore, it just clicked with him more than any of the other schools he had seen. When we sat in on the information session with him, I remember at one point leaning over and exclaiming to my H, “They are describing him!” I didn’t hear any other school’s info session which sounded quite like Swarthmore’s as it applied to my child. He applied ED and never looked back.