Dean of Admissions explains how Swarthmore recruits and enrolls students while sustaining its test-optional policy amid national debates over standardized testing.
In this special Final Exams edition of Swat Says, students discuss their plans for winter break, reveal their most dreaded upcoming finals, and share their thoughts on the Swarthmore Marriage Pact.
Nayla Punjabi '26 shares her experiences at Middlebury's Experiential Learning Conference, where herself and two other Swarthmore students learned about systems mapping, a technique which encourages a holistic and strategic approach to problem-solving.
Genine Collins ’27 is a force to be reckoned with in the pool. On Nov. 8, the junior swimmer broke Swarthmore and Centennial Conference records in the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.25, beating out her previous 23.30 school record. For
Track and Field: On Friday, Dec 10., Swarthmore track and field traveled to Lancaster, PA, to compete in the Diplomat Open hosted by Franklin & Marshall College. The Garnet were one of fifteen colleges represented in the indoor meet, the first of
The National Hockey League’s (NHL) opening day was Oct. 7 this season. As you may know, the NHL sucks the last ounce of consumerism out of sports fans by making their season span six months of 82 games per team. In the
Recently, I have been conscientious of presence. The way one holds themselves. The way one walks with purpose. The way one eats alone in the glowing sunlight. Before college, I thought if one was by themself, it meant that they were lonely.
The second in a series of conversations with alumni, Sara Sargent ’07 is currently a senior executive editor at Penguin Random House. Like last week’s Grace Dignazio ’22, she’s pursued a career around writing, though the dates and details differ slightly …
Swarthmore is the rare school which puts all control over group funding into the hands of a student run committee. Each year, the Student Budget Committee distributes $319,000 to 104 [...]
So while transportation is relatively easy, finding a chill place to hang out is a little more difficult. Simply put, there are three types of places where you can hang [...]
During February, the “Greening Swarthmore” subsection of Earthlust hosted the “Tri-Co Energy Competition” at Swarthmore. The concept, developed by Bryn Mawr students who had their own campus-wide energy competition last [...]
Spring Break is here at last. For those of you staying in the area, here’s a ten day itinerary in case you’re worried that all you have to keep you [...]
Science Center bathrooms used to contain wooden benches in front of the stalls. This semester, however, "the benches were removed because they interfered with the space required by the Americans [...]
The notion that the queer community tends, in general, to be more liberal than the population at large is one of those political truisms that many Americans take for granted. [...]