Introduction
Founded by Quakers in 1864, Swarthmore
Swarthmore College
Information Summary
| Overall Score (about) | 99.3 |
| Total Cost On-Campus Attendance | $71,167 |
| Admission Success rate | N/A |
| ACT / SAT 75%ile scores | 34 / 1550 |
| Student Ratio Students-to-Faculty | 7 : 1 |
| Retention (full-time / part-time) | 97% / N/A |
| Enrollment Total (all students) | 1,559 |
Academics
At Swarthmore it can often feel like one
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Admissions
It has occasionally been remarked that some top-ranked schools don
Financial Aid
Compared to many other colleges, Swarthmore
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Students
As noted above, Swarthmore is a small school, at roughly 1,500 students. Although this can lead to a lack of privacy, it also lends itself to an incredibly close-knit and supportive community. Social interactions are likely to occur in the lone dining hall and in the library, in the campus newspaper offices, and in the gym; unlike larger schools, if you want to see someone you don
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Athletics
More than twenty percent of students participate on a sports team. There are twelve outdoor and six indoor tennis courts, six full-length basketball courts, ten outdoor playing fields, a lighted stadium, squash courts, gym, an indoor pool, and a fully staffed sports medicine facility, among other amenities. While Swarthmore
Alumni
Every June about 350 students join the ranks of the Swarthmore alumni. They go into the world in widely varying fields with vastly different paths and ambitions. Some become dancers while others become neuroscientists, some become community activists, while others become playwrights. There is no one-track path for the Swarthmore graduate and that is exactly what Swarthmore wants: Swarthmore is not a vocational school and does not train its students to perform in a particular field. Instead it provides a much more profound and, ultimately, useful skill: critical thinking and the ability to write complex arguments in a convincing way.
Many alums go immediately or almost immediately into graduate programs at the top universities in the world
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