<p>Hi Jaimie17,
More info for you. My S said that they revived the Mock Trial team this year. Apparently it had been dormant for some time. There is also a terrific debate team on campus. As for study abroad, he never focused on going abroad, and now that he has been accepted as a double honors major, he seems to think it’s really out of the question because of the amount of seminars he has to take within the next two years. He believes that Swat has only a couple of formal study abroad programs that it runs, but thinks that number is pretty normal for a small college. However, students latch on to study abroad programs all over the world run by different universities. He said that there is an office at Swarthmore specifically devoted to helping students set up their study abroad, and told me that the individual department chairs help arrange for credit for courses taken abroad. He guesses that close to half the juniors go abroad for one semester. There are a large number of groups on campus promoting social /environmental activism, and close to 20% of the students actively participate in these groups. For example, my S has traveled 15 hours (each way) on a bus to Georgia to protest at a US Army base (long story!) and also works for various causes right on campus. This past semester he volunteered on Saturday mornings in a nearby town preparing tax returns for low income people. (He was trained first!) Hope this was somewhat helpful.</p>