May 18, 2001

'Swarthmouth' and Other College Choices

By NANCY DONEHOWER

Year after year, most high-school counselors see their students apply to roughly the same small group of colleges. Those groups vary from high school to high school, of course, and they vary within a high school if the current seniors have lived in several states during their school careers, or if their relatives have attended a broad range of colleges. Nonetheless, the same institutions continue to attract most of the applications. At a time when information about colleges is more easily

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