Yale vs. Swat?

RedwoodMom
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:44:00 +0000

One more data point on the science front – my daughter is a senior at Swat and one of the attractions was its lack of grad students. She’s gotten paid research internships each summer, one of them working on her own thesis research. It’s really helped her narrow down exactly what she wants to focus on, and where the best grad school would be for the very narrow research niche she’s interested in. That school flew her there and set her up with a dozen different professors to chat with, and really courted her. They offered her great fellowships, too, so now she is all set for grad school. (Woohoo, no more tuition bills!) I don’t know what would have happened at another school, of course, but she’s been thrilled with her whole experience at Swat.