Mid-late July |
New Students and Transfer Students: Online placement exam info sent via email. |
July 28 |
Announcement of amended Fall 2020 and January 2021 Course Schedules. Fall 2020 will indicate remote or hybrid. January 2021 is all remote. Some new courses may be added. |
August 1 |
New Students and Transfer Students: Deadline to complete online placement exams. |
August 3-5 |
Course lotteries for sophomores, juniors, and seniors based on April pre-enrollment.
- Students may be lotteried into different sections than those for which they registered.
- Courses moved to the January term will be moved with their pre-registration of students and then lotteried.
- Some Fall 2020 courses may unfortunately be cancelled and not made up. Look for departmental announcements about those.
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August 11-14 |
Advising for sophomores, juniors, and seniors for Fall 2020 and January 2021 Term. Advisees, please confer with your advisors. |
Mid-August |
New Students and Transfer Students: Academic advisor assignment notification via mySwarthmore |
August 17 |
Add/Drop (conducted remotely) begins for sophomores, juniors, and seniors, for Fall 2020 and January 2021. |
August 24-28 |
New student advising and registration (conducted remotely) for Fall 2020 and January 2021. (Add/Drop for Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors will be paused during this time).
- Monday, August 24 (time and structure to be determined): Virtual Advising Fair, including asynchronous component.
- Monday, August 24, and Tuesday, August 25: New Student Advising (new students meet individually and virtually with academic advisors).
- Wednesday, August 26, 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. EDT: Registration for Fall and J-term via mySwarthmore
- Thursday, August 27: Course lotteries
- Friday, August 28: Add/Drop begins for new students using Add/Drop form in mySwarthmore
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August 30 |
Add/Drop resumes for all students for both Fall 2020 and January 2021. |
September 1 – 6 |
Staggered arrival of students (first-years, sophomores, incoming transfer students, students on campus by petition) |
September 7 |
Labor Day; First day of fall classes |
September 14 |
(Monday): Last day of Add/Drop for Fall 2020 courses. Deadline 11:59 p.m. |
September 15 |
Add/Drop for the J-term continues until January 5 |
November 6 |
(Friday): CR/NC and Course Withdrawal deadlines |
November 9–20 |
Advising for Spring Registration |
November 20 |
Last day of on-campus experiences. |
November 20 – 22 |
Phased departure of on-campus students. |
November 21 – 29 |
Thanksgiving Break |
December 1–2 |
Pre-registration for Spring semester |
December 4 |
Last day of classes |
December 5 – 7 |
Reading Period |
December 8 – 15 |
Final exams |
December 16 – January 3 |
Winter Break I |