Profile of the Class of 2009-2010

There are 30 students in the Class of 2009-2010, represented by 24 different undergraduate majors, with the most popular being psychology, followed by English and history.  Other majors include art history, Jazz Studies, geography, public policy, theater, Spanish, religion, anthropology, and philosophy. The average age is 25, as is the median, and students have degrees from 24 different colleges. Eight post-bacs have graduate degrees, in fields ranging from African Studies to communication disorders to public health.  As in previous years, many of our students have had experience abroad, with three former Peace Corps volunteers, and six others who have lived in the developing world.  Closer to home, we have two professional musicians, a nationally-ranked figure skater, a producer with NPR, and an audiologist.  Other careers represented include law, accounting, global health research, investment banking, social work, healthcare policy, and non-profit/NGO work..

The age distribution breaks down as follows:

22-23:  9
24-25:  9
26-27:  6
28-31  6

The following undergraduate institutions are represented:

University of Pennsylvania 4
Brown 2
University of Michigan 2
Cornell 2
Cal State Fullerton
Grinnell
Cleveland Institute of Music
University of Florida
New York University
Yale
University of Hartford
Saint Louis University
Boston College
Yeshiva University
University of North Carolina
Vanderbilt
Amherst
Howard Payne
Dartmouth
University of California, Berkeley
Mount Holyoke
Duke
University of Miami
Wesleyan


Graduate degrees were earned at the following institutions:

Vanderbilt
Yale
Columbia
Tulane
Johns Hopkins
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Boston College
University of Florida