Why Haverford Sciences are phenomenal: Part 12(?)

mcpheevn
Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:45:03 +0000

Hi everyone,

I would like to know what are the commonly graduate schools that Haverford science students (or those with strong science focus, I included the brackets because Haverford is a LAC), and particularly for chemistry enrolled in because I intend to major in chemistry in college. Please don’t just list only the top schools because there might be be only one or two that get accepted to each of those schools and therefore will not be representative of all students. If possible, I would want to know the detailed distribution of graduate schools (how many students accepted into what school) for Haverford science major (again, esp. Chemistry).

I am seriously considering to apply ED for Haverford right now because I used to plan to apply ED for other strong science LACs (based on the graduate productivity: see the Oberlin 50 and [nsf.gov - SRS Baccalaureate Origins of S&E Doctorate Recipients - US National Science Foundation (NSF)](Archive Goodbye | NCSES | NSF)) such as Reed & Grinnell. However, I am having feelings that some of them are too quirky (read:hippie or indie) for my taste (this is a matter of preference and I don’t mean to offend anyone). I feel that Haverford students, while equally hard-working, seem more laid-back and normal (please correct me if I’m wrong). And the fact that it is near Penn, in a consortium & the persuasions from the people on this topic also helped me be attracted more and more to Haverford.

Edit: I also have considered other strong science LACs such as Swarthmore & Harvey Mudd. They will definitely be on my RD list but for ED I think these school are harder to get into compared to Haverford, esp. for an international student with aid like me (I haven’t looked at the numbers yet, if anyone has them please post here as well).