<p>Has anyone received an off campus interview yet? I signed up online for one ages ago, and I still haven't gotten it. I live in NYC so shortage of interviewers shouldn't be a problem. Thanks!</p>
<p>Are you applying ED or RD? The admissions office may be hurrying to get the ED applicants set up with interviews before the ED deadline before they schedule the RD applicants. It also doesn't hurt to call the admissions office and double check.</p>
<p>they usually don't do off campus interviews if you live in nyc - they'll schedule you for an on campus interview.</p>
<p>I'm doing RD. They haven't given me notice about ANY kind of interview, onsite or offsite.</p>
<p>hellohowareyou makes a very good point. If you live in NYC, it would be expected that you interview on campus. You can go from NYC on Amtrak right to 30th St. Station in Philly, and then pick up SEPTA (the commuter line equivalent of LIRR or Metro-North) right in the 30th St. Station and it will drop you at the foot of Swarthmore's campus. The ride on Amtrak is about an hour and twenty minutes, and the SEPTA commute is about another 20 minutes.</p>
<p>The daughter of a friend of mine applied to Swat a few years ago from Washington DC. She did not interview on campus. She got in to Princeton, Chicago and I think Harvard, but was wait listed at Swat. We thought perhaps this was because, although she lived relatively close to Swarthmore, she had never made an "official" visit to the campus (she had visited informally, but not contacted the admissions office while on campus), nor had she interviewed with an admissions officer. In their Common Data Set Swarthmore states that the level of applicants interest is "considered" in the admissions decision. So the bottom line is: if you are really interested in Swarthmore, go interview on campus if it is at all possible.</p>