Advice to Social Seniors

Related Link: Instructions for Remote Degree Finishers

Swarthmore encourages spring-semester seniors who are almost finished with their degrees to stay on campus as "social seniors" and celebrate their successes as well as the successes of their classmates.

Here's how it works being a social senior:

• Social seniors are welcome to participate in senior week and attend commencement as a member of the audience at LPAC.  Social seniors do not robe, march, sit with the class, cross the stage, or sit in the amphitheater this year.  Social seniors follow the residence life guidelines for seniors.
  • For more information about residence life options for social seniors, please contact that office directly.
• You are welcome to robe and march at the commencement after you are completely finished, hopefully next year.
• As soon as you become completely finished and this is documented for the registrar, the registrar can write an official letter certifying degree completion, and this letter has the force of the diploma with regard to employment and graduate school admission. In this way, we can acknowledge your fulfillment as soon as possible, even though technically you won't be graduated by the College until the next commencement after you are done.
• Once graduated, you are welcome to inform the Alumni Office that you would like to be associated with your social class, and so invited to their events and so on. From many perspectives you will be the year of your social class, although technically your graduation year will be different.

Remember to stay in touch with the registrar as you finish your degree. We look forward to your finishing and we are here to help as needed.