Swarthmore College Top Questions

There are many diverse ppl from whom i learn to accept other pl that are different. a student who is stupid would feel out of place. I wear a ripped flannel plaid jacket to class. one table is jeff santner, ben starr, and chris caruso. one table is travis and heid and jimmy jinn. one table is saxmaster scott. one table is the music majors who all eat together. The aristocracy is the most prevalent. students are politcally aware and hav incorrect belifs about plitics. we are mostly lefties. I will earn 150,000 dollar per annum.

diverse passionate caring loving open intense opinionated funny awkward outgoing weird nerdy proud smart easy going liberal achieving better than haverford from all demographics from all backgrounds from all experiences from the places you can't even imagine with life stories that inspire you with goals that seem unreachable with the ambition to reach those goals with the drive to find the facilities to make goals realiteis active aware searching finding looking for more finding more insatiable if you want greek life, dont apply here if you dont want to interact with all kinds of ppl, dont come here somewhat in your face, but always with respect one dining hall,you sit with everyone there is no one that falls through the cracks there are no cracks

Students here definitely care about many different issuea. And its hard because everyone has their own passion and you want to support all of your friends. It just difficult to keep grounded when you are so obsessed with learning these specific things and then you go out into the "real world" and no one really cares.

Most students are left. don't come here and expect to not be constantly under attack/ have to defend your beliefs if you are a hard core conservative or religious person.

For domestic students: Lots of Californians, lots of New Yorkers, lots of Pennsylvania kids, and it seems like all but 5{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the rest are from New England. Midwesterners and Southerners aren't at all shoved out of social situations or anything; it's nice to have that diversity, but there sure are concentrated areas of origin. There are lots of international students, thankfully, because that's a really cool element of Swarthmore. Sadly, a lot of those students just head toward the sciences and never peek their heads out of the engineering and chemistry books, but hey, there are times when everyone mixes. Every religion and sexual orientation is openly presented and accepted, so that's fantastic. Class issues are actually a source of hidden confusions sometimes, however; financial aid is rarely discussed, but some people get really class-conscious and push things into the open that perhaps don't need to be discussed. The one type of kid that would feel like an outsider here would be a Republican with a southern accent, especially if they were rich and flaunted it. The political leanings on campus are certainly liberal, and there's often a slightly aggressive element of politically active students. The College Republicans are often kind of defensive but what little presence they have is valuable and acknowledged.

Lots of talk about race, sexuality and class. Lots. Sometimes too much. There's one week where LGBT community "chalks" drawings of explicit LGBT stuff all over campus. Sometimes its a little too much--I'm not homophobic but I don't need anal sex thrown in my face everywhere I turn. I admit that I was born into a pretty wealthy family but sometimes I feel like that's a bad thing when I'm here. I shouldn't have to feel like that but I feel like if I complain about it I'll look like a spoiled priss. The clothes people wear to class varies greatly. Some people wear pajamas, some wear suits, some wear jeans and a shirt. And even these vary--some PJs come from the local Target and some come from Ralph Lauren. Some jeans come from Levi's and others are Sevens and Rock and Republics. But despite all this, everyone interacts well. Sexual orientation, religion, race, and class don't get in the way of making friendships.

Students are generally very much into grassroots organizing. Most students are left-minded and the College Republicans take a lot of abuse from pretty much everyone.

There are many minority support groups and associations. These groups often meet to discuss issues relevant to their group and to the campus at large. Students that would feel out of place at Swat would probably be closed-minded people and people who feel the need to exert their intelligence or wealth. Students tend to not be very conscious of dressing nicely--typical jockwear for athletes/athlettes or ugly high school-ish clothes for those completely out of touch with their new college life. There seems to be a hipster resurgence going on in terms of fashion, but it's annoying since it's mostly annoying rich kids playing boho-chic dress up. Most students are from NJ, CA, PA, and NY. Students are politically aware and active--predominantly left. I would say that most students probably don't talk much about future earnings--most probably will end up poor activists or end up as poor grad students. I think a lot of the people at this school are probably well off--but people always talk about class issues as if they were raised poor. It's weird. Different types of students definitely interact, but I wouldn't say that they hang out together all the time.

so diverse yet so boringly liberal.

I was gonna say Heidi has a hot student body but not anymore cuz she just penned me up.