Swarthmore College Top Questions

awkward, studious, intense, too intense, quaker matchbox, pyschedelic, worth the money, a good investment, nerdy, politically active

Swarthmore students are very hard working.

I guess we can split it up to three categories: The Good: We're very close-knit and we're known for having excellent professor-student relationships. We're quirky and kind of off-beat. The Bad: We're socially awkward, study all the time and there's nothing to do on campus. The Ugly: We're ugly.

People think we're a bunch of unattractive hippies who spend all of their time studying and have no social life whatsoever.

Stereotypes--the students are intense, ugly, socially incompetent, genuinely enthusiastic about academics, intellectual, concerned about the societally disenfranchised, ultra-liberal, unbathed. About the school itself: that it's socially stifling and at a remove from the larger world.

That this place is intense, that the students are weird, and that the students are involved in social justice.

nerdy, geeks, spend all the time studying. rough school, lots of work

Work too much, A lot of work, getting good grades are difficult

over chiiled, mad hiped out, all down with their ebonics and such.

We are all really smart people that lack any form of social skills except being awkward. Instead of going out on the weekends, we stay in and study, for hours on end. The schools is looked at as one of most academically intense schools in the nation, but provides a true intellectual experience...knowledge is superficial, swarthmore provides the wisdom behind the knowledge.