Volume 11, Issue 12
5.13.2016 A PUBLICATION BY HOLDERNESS STUDENTS FOR THE HOLDERNESS COMMUNITY
THE CLASS OF 2016: WHERE ARE THEY HEADED? By Chae Hahn ‘17, Lolo Zabaleta ‘18
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he college process is notorious for being extremely tumultuous. Congratulations to the Class of 2016! This year, a total of 476 applications were submitted by the senior class, roughly 6.6 per person. Of those, 180 were submitted Early Action or Early Decision, and college counselors noted that many Common Applications were completed before the start of school this September. In the realm of standardized testing, the mean ACT score was a 26, and the mean SAT was a 1781, with half of the class exclusively using their ACT scores for college. 89 colleges and universities visited the Holderness campus this fall. Geographically, the Class of 2016 expressed particular interest in schools in New England, Colorado, and California. Here is the list of 52 schools seniors are headed to next fall.
Babson College Bates College Bentley University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Central State University Clarkson University College of Charleston College of the Holy Cross Dickinson College Drew University East Texas Baptist University Emory University Endicott College Florida Institute of Technology Franklin and Marshall College Franklin University Switzerland Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Furman University Gettysburg College Hamilton College - NY Hobart and William Smith Colleges Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lafayette College Lehigh University The Picador: Volume 11, Issue 12
Middlebury College Northeastern University Saint Michael’s College Santa Clara University Skidmore College Springfield College St. Lawrence University Stevenson University Stonehill College Syracuse University Temple University The George Washington University The New School - All Divisions Tufts University United States Naval Academy University of California, San Diego University of California, Santa Barbara University of Denver University of New Hampshire at Durham University of Rhode Island University of Vermont Utica College Westminster College Whitman College Williams College Virginia Wesleyan College 1