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 …
When they’re not writing, the Swarthmore Creative Writing Program (CWP) students are dancing. Or, well, this may have been a one-time occurrence. On Wednesday, Jan. 29, the CWP started the semester with a Spring 2025 Welcome Back Party and Reading in the
Dr. Bernice King, daughter of Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered a talk on the King philosophy of nonviolence and love-centered activism at Pearson Hall Theatre in the Lang Performing Arts Center on Friday, Jan. 24. The event, hosted
Mary Beard, described as the most famous classicist in Britain, presented her lecture titled “The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum” on Friday, Jan. 31, in the cinema of the Lang Performing Arts Center. The Professor of Classics
At the philosophy panel talk “From Perception to Action: Intelligent Action in the Absence of the Intellect” hosted at Swarthmore College on Monday, Feb. 3, Sofia Berinstein, a graduate student from the University of Pittsburgh, presented her theory on sensual actions, challenging
Regular and winter early decision application review is underway at Swarthmore College as the admissions team continues to adjust to “race-neutral” admissions policies. Winter early decision is the second of two rounds of admissions decisions that are binding unless families can’t afford
Upon attempting to order my textbooks this semester, I was shocked to find that I had $289.72 less in my Textbook Affordability Program (TAP) account than I thought. “Where did the funds go?” I asked myself. Upon investigation, I found they had
A college dormitory is no place for seclusion – it is a shared space that, even behind closed doors, is never truly private. They are communal spaces; we commune in each other’s joys and struggles, all in a centralized place. Of course,
Republican politicians and Twitter warriors alike seemingly draw every issue back to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Following a tragic plane crash on Jan. 30, 2025, President Donald Trump made claims that DEI was to blame for the plane crash. He stated
Men’s Track and Field Seamus McElligott Invitational, 4th of 7 Last week, the Seamus McElligott Invitational meet hosted sixteen men’s events in an exciting competition between seven teams in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania area. Joel Lovell ’26, Gabriel Hines ’26, and
Justin Casey is a Visiting Instructor at Swarthmore College and a Ph.D Candidate in international relations at Georgetown University. Their dissertation, “The Propaganda Dilemma: Democracies in the War of Ideas,” draws on extensive research at the Truman, Eisenhower, and Reagan Presidential Libraries,