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BRYN MAWR | HAVERFORD | UNIV PENNSYLVANIA

The Swarthmore Tri-College and Penn exchanges are available to enrolled full-time undergraduate degree candidates at Swarthmore for undergraduate courses only. Other students at Swarthmore are not eligible to exchange at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, or UPenn.

Registration for Courses at Bryn Mawr

FALL 2024: 

  • BRYN MAWR will begin accepting Swarthmore Registration forms on the first day of their Pre-Registration through until the last day of Add/Drop:  Monday, April 15 - Wednesday, September 11, 2024
  • ADD/DROP DEADLINE FOR SWARTHMORE STUDENTS: Wednesday, September 11, 2024
  • BRYN MAWR CLASSES BEGIN: (NO classes on Labor Day, Monday Sept. 6) Tuesday, September 3, 2024
  • BRYN MAWR CLASSES END:  Thursday, December 12, 2024
  • FINAL EXAMS PERIOD: Sunday, December 15, 2024 – Friday, December 20, 2024

Spring 2025: 

  • BRYN MAWR will begin accepting Swarthmore Registration forms on the first day of their Pre-Registration through until the last day of Add/Drop: Monday, November 11 - Wednesday, January 29, 2025
  • ADD/DROP DEADLINE FOR SWARTHMORE STUDENTS: Friday, February 7, 2025 
  • BRYN MAWR CLASSES BEGIN:  Tuesday, January 21, 2025
  • BRYN MAWR CLASSES END: Friday, May 2, 2025
  • FINAL EXAMS PERIOD:  Monday, May 5, 2025 – Friday, May 16, 2025

TO REGISTER FOR A COURSE AT BRYN MAWR:

  1. Complete the Swarthmore–Bryn Mawr Course Application Form [pdf] also available from the Swarthmore Registrar’s Office.
  2. Secure the appropriate Swarthmore College approving signatures (department chair) on this form.  Bryn-Mawr College instructor signature is also required. 
  3. Submit the completed form in it's entirety including BrynMawr Professor signature & the Swarthmore department chair signature to the Swarthmore College Registrar's office by email to registrar@swarthmore.edu or in person to Parrish 124/128

PLEASE NOTE:

  • You must comply with both our Add/Drop deadline and theirs, in effect, whichever is earlier.
  • If you have not properly enrolled at both Bryn Mawr AND Swarthmore, you will not receive a grade for the course.
  • You are not allowed to take a course at these colleges (or elsewhere) that repeats one you have previously taken at Swarthmore without the department specifically approving the repetition in a separate note or letter to be attached to the form.
  • No audits.
  • Subject to BMC approval: Final approval of your registration is up to Bryn Mawr and possibly subject to change according to their procedures.
  • Beginning for Fall 2019 registration Bryn Mawr College Chemistry department will need students to come to the first week of class to try to secure a seat. No forms will be signed or email permission granted prior to the first week of class for any Chemistry classes at Bryn Mawr.
  • Swarthmore students who take courses at Haverford and Bryn Mawr do so under the rules concerning papers, examinations, grading, deadlines for completed work, and so on, that pertain at those colleges (i.e., please be aware that beginning languages at Bryn Mawr and Haverford are yearlong courses; both semesters are required for credit, as is true at Swarthmore). Students should plan ahead so as to manage their work successfully on this basis. Exceptions based on difference of procedures between their regulations or calendar and ours will not be granted. Copies of the honor code of Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges are available in the Swarthmore Registrar's Office.
  • Once you have been approved and enrolled in a course at Bryn Mawr College, you will get access to the Moodle site for the course. In order to receive your login credentials, you must go to the Help Desk in Canaday Library (first floor) in person with a photo id. 
  • Bryn Mawr will officially begin registering Swarthmore students for courses in August after all of their lotteries have been run.
  • If you drop, withdraw, or make any changes to your registration or the grading mode of the Bryn Mawr or Haverford course, you must notify by email both the Registrar’s Office at Swarthmore College and the Registrar’s Office at the other school(s).

ADVISORIES:

  • Library Advisory: Swarthmore students taking classes at Bryn Mawr who expect to use their Canaday Library after 6 p.m. or on weekends will need to obtain, in advance, a Bryn Mawr OneCard from the Bryn Mawr OneCard Office. More information regarding this change can be found on the Bryn Mawr IS blog.
  • Transportation Advisory: The three colleges support the Tri-Co Van shuttle service. This is the only transportation Swarthmore makes available to you to attend classes at Bryn Mawr or Haverford. Learn the schedule and use it wisely. If you miss the last shuttle or if shuttle service stops due to inclement weather or emergency, you are advised to seek safe emergency housing through the public safety office of the campus on which you find yourself; to contact your professors as needed to let them know why you are not coming and arrange to make up the work; and to await the next shuttle as it becomes available.

Registration for Courses at Haverford

Fall 2024: 

  • HAVERFORD PRE-REGISTRATION FOR SWARTHMORE STUDENTS: Monday, April 8, 2024 – Friday, April 19, 2024
    * Swarthmore students must observe the above dates if they hope to be included in the lottery for any Haverford limited-enrollment course. This rule applies to anyone, regardless of college, who wishes to take a Haverford course.
  • ADD/DROP DEADLINE FOR SWARTHMORE STUDENTS: Wednesday, September 11, 2024
  • HAVERFORD CLASSES BEGIN: Tuesday, September 3, 2024
  • HAVERFORD CLASSES END:  Friday, December 13, 2024
  • FINAL EXAMS PERIOD: Monday, December 16, 2024 – Friday, December 20, 2024

Spring 2025: 

  • HAVERFORD PRE-REGISTRATION FOR SWARTHMORE STUDENTS: Monday, November 4, 2024 – Friday, November 15, 2024
    * Swarthmore students must observe the above dates if they hope to be included in the lottery for any Haverford limited-enrollment course that begins in Spring 2025. This rule applies to anyone, regardless of college, who wishes to take a Haverford course.
  • ADD/DROP DEADLINE FOR SWARTHMORE STUDENTS: Friday, February 7, 2025
  • HAVERFORD CLASSES BEGIN: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
  • HAVERFORD CLASSES END: Friday, May 2, 2025
  • FINAL EXAMS PERIOD: Monday, May 5, 2025 – Friday, May 16, 2025

TO REGISTER FOR A COURSE AT HAVERFORD:

  1. Complete the Swarthmore–Haverford Course Application Form [pdf] also available from the Swarthmore Registrar’s Office.
  2. Secure the appropriate Swarthmore College approving signatures (department chair) on this form.
  3. Submit the completed form to the Swarthmore College Registrar's office.

PLEASE NOTE:

  • You must comply with both our Add/Drop deadline and theirs, in effect, whichever is earlier.
  • Lottery results can be found on the Haverford Registrar webpage. Haverford lotteries courses during the first week of school, not earlier. Don’t count on preregistration alone.
  • If you have not properly enrolled at both Haverford AND Swarthmore, you will not receive a grade for the course.
  • You are not allowed to take a course at these colleges (or elsewhere) that repeats one you have previously taken at Swarthmore without the department specifically approving the repetition in a separate note or letter to be attached to the form.
  • No audits.
  • Subject to Haverford approval: Final approval of your registration is up to Haverford and possibly subject to change according to their procedures.
  • Swarthmore students who take courses at Haverford and Bryn Mawr do so under the rules concerning papers, examinations, grading, deadlines for completed work, and so on, that pertain at those colleges (i.e., please be aware that beginning languages at Bryn Mawr and Haverford are yearlong courses; both semesters are required for credit, as is true at Swarthmore). Students should plan ahead so as to manage their work successfully on this basis. Exceptions based on difference of procedures between their regulations or calendar and ours will not be granted. Copies of the honor code of Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges are available in the Swarthmore Registrar’s Office.
  • If you drop, withdraw, or make any changes to your registration or the grading mode of the Bryn Mawr or Haverford course, you must notify by email both the Registrar’s Office at Swarthmore College and the Registrar’s Office at the other school(s).

ADVISORIES:

  • Transportation Advisory: The three colleges support the Tri-Co Van shuttle service. This is the only transportation Swarthmore makes available to you to attend classes at Bryn Mawr or Haverford. Learn the schedule and use it wisely. If you miss the last shuttle or if shuttle service stops due to inclement weather or emergency, you are advised to seek safe emergency housing through the public safety office of the campus on which you find yourself; to contact your professors as needed to let them know why you are not coming and arrange to make up the work; and to await the next shuttle as it becomes available.

Registration for Courses at University of Pennsylvania

CAUTIONS ABOUT THE QUAKER CONSORTIUM:

  • ELECTIVES: Swarthmore students should expect UPenn courses to be Swarthmore electives.
  • Swarthmore allows only one course at UPenn per semester, limited to undergraduate courses numbered 0001-4999 and subject to UPenn’s approval and UPenn's rules.
  • First semester first-year students are not permitted to take courses at UPenn. 
  • Swarthmore students should not expect to take a course at UPenn as a requirement for a Swarthmore major, minor, or program. If it works out to count for one after the fact, then fine, but do not expect this in advance of taking it.
  • Swarthmore students should not expect to use UPenn courses to resolve a course scheduling conflict at Swarthmore.
  • Register full-time at Swarthmore College for up to 4.5 credits, and only drop ours after you are completely enrolled in your course at UPenn.
  • At UPenn, faculty permission or grade is NOT sufficient to earn credit. You MUST follow the registration process to be able to receive credit.
  • If you drop, withdraw, or make any changes to your registration you must notify by email the Swarthmore Registrar’s Office.
  • A UPenn Incomplete grade must be completed within the first four weeks of the next semester or the grade will automatically be converted to a grade of “NC.”
  • UPenn can deny any proposed course a Swarthmore student wants to take. 
  • Our registration form requires that you obtain approval from both your faculty advisor and the Swarthmore department under whose purview the course falls. 
  • Registration must go through the OUR (Office Univ. Registrar). Requesting permission from the Penn Dept. OR  Faculty does not  guarantee a seat in the course
  • Swarthmore students who take courses at UPenn do so under the rules concerning papers, examinations, grading, deadlines for completed work, and so on, that pertain THERE. Exceptions based on differences between their regulations or calendar and ours will not be granted.
  • Students should pay close attention to the course restriction information & instructions

NOT PERMITTED IN THE PENN EXCHANGE:

  • Swarthmore does not permit Swarthmore students to register for more than one UPenn course per semester.
  • UPenn does not permit Swarthmore students to register for any courses numbered at the graduate or professional levels (course numbers 500 or above).
  • UPenn does not permit Swarthmore students to register for any course at UPenn that is regularly offered at Swarthmore College.
  • UPenn does not permit Swarthmore students to do independent study.
  • UPenn does not permit Swarthmore students to audit courses.
  • Upenn does not permit Swarthmore students to Pass/Fail a Penn course.
  • UPenn does not permit Swarthmore students to use the following UPenn resources. Violation of these policies could result in termination of current registration at UPenn and restriction from further participation in the exchange.
    • UPenn’s Career Services
    • PennLink Recruiting System
    • UPenn’s Student Employment
    • UPenn’s Student Financial Services
    • UPenn’s Student Health Service

PENN’S RULES:

Students taking courses at UPenn do so under the final examination schedule, course deadlines, and academic rules concerning papers, examinations, grading, schedules and deadlines for completed work, and so on, that pertain there. Swarthmore students taking a class through the University of Pennsylvania Quaker Consortium must review UPenn’s Quaker Consortium Student Guide [pdf].

Exceptions based on difference of procedures between other regulations or calendar and ours will not be granted to Swarthmore students.

Students who are registered with Student Disability Services and wish to use their approved accommodations in classes at UPenn, must meet with UPenn's Disability Services office.

Fall 2024:  

  • UPENN REGISTRATION FORMS WILL BE ACCEPTED BY THE SWARTHMORE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE STARTING: Monday, June 3, 2024
  • UPENN will begin to process Swarthmore registration requests on Thursday, August 1, 2024 (date subject to change) which is ongoing through September 16, 2024. *Swarthmore Registrar's Office will not know of your registration status until after this date*
  • SWARTHMORE’S UPENN REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED BY: Tuesday, August 27, 2024 *date subject to change*
  • UPENN'S CLASSES BEGIN: Tuesday, August 27, 2024
  • UPENN'S CLASSES END: Thursday, December 19, 2024
  • UPENN’S FINAL EXAMS: Thursday, December 12 – Thursday, December 19, 2024  *Final exam dates are non-negotiable--if you cannot make them work, do not take the class*

Spring 2025:  The UPENN Registration form will be available by end of November and dates below are subject to change.

  • UPENN REGISTRATION FORMS WILL BE ACCEPTED BY THE SWARTHMORE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE STARTING: Monday, December 2, 2024 
  • UPENN will begin to process Swarthmore registration requests on Monday, December 2, 2024 which will be ongoing through January 10, 2025. *Swarthmore Registrar's Office will not know of your registration status until after this date*
  • SWARTHMORE’S UPENN REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED BY: Friday, January 10, 2025
  • UPENN'S CLASSES BEGIN: Monday, January 20, 2025
  • UPENN'S CLASSES END:  Wednesday, May 1, 2024
  • UPENN’S FINAL EXAMS: TBD *Final exam dates are non-negotiable--if you cannot make them work, do not take the class*

REQUIRED REGISTRATION PROCEDURE AND LINKS TO FORMS:

  1. Swarthmore students wishing to take a class at the University of Pennsylvania must review UPenn’s Quaker Consortium Student Guide [pdf] (updated version to be available in Summer 2024).
  2. Swarthmore only allows one Undergraduate level course enrollment per semester (courses numbered 0001-4999 only).
  3. First semester first-year students are not permitted to take courses at UPenn, and first-years should be very thoughtful about how they want to manage their time if considering taking courses at UPenn their second semester.
  4. Complete the Swarthmore Registration for Courses at UPenn form and submit to the Swarthmore Registrar’s Office on or after the date mentioned above.
  5. You must meticulously follow all the instructions in that email, which sometimes contains many steps for you to do. Follow all the instructions in order to be fully registered for credit, including the Student Guide instructions for your PennCard and PennKey setup.
  6. If you are in need of assistance from the OUR (Office University Registrar), you may email registrar.upenn.edu and be sure to identify yourself as a member of the QC-Swarthmore College, which will allow for quicker assistance

HOUSING:

If you are planning to register for a UPenn course with a start date before our courses, you need to be in contact with the Office of Student Engagement regarding the start date for those courses. Early housing will only be considered if UPenn’s LPS has contacted the Swarthmore Registrar’s Office with enrollment verification. Meals will not be included.

UPENN TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT GUIDELINES: