Counselor's Guide to Haverford College
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HAVERFORD, PA FALL 2014 COUNSELOR’S GUIDE TO H AV ER FOR D COLLEGE Haverford, one of America’s From the Dean 2 leading liberal arts colleges, What should you know about Haverford? 3 offers a one-of-a-kind education. There is no place where students are more trusted, are By the Numbers: Facts and Statistics 4 more directly engaged with their education, and have more opportunity to shape their own path. Our Campus and The Surrounding Area 5 Class Profile 2018: Who comes to Haverford? 6 Class Profile 2014: Where they’re headed... 7 Admission and Financial Aid 8 1 FROM THE DEAN Dear Friends, Admission Contacts We hope your school year has started off wonderfully! We are excited to take this Jess H. Lord opportunity to celebrate the beginning of a new school year with you. Dean of Admission & Financial Aid Territories: IL, Europe Last year we welcomed Dan Weiss as the 14th president of Haverford and wrapped up an extraordinary and invigorating campus-wide strategic planning process. We are Mary Maier ’05 already underway in bringing this plan to life and look forward to the ways this will Senior Associate Director of Admission strengthen and expand our mission. Highlights of this plan include the creation of the Territories: DE, MA (Boston), ME, NH, Center for Visual Culture and Media, the development of programming around Ethical OR, PA (Montgomery, Delaware, & Engagement and Leadership, and continued emphasis on financial aid and making a Haverford education accessible and affordable. Chester Counties), RI, WA We were thrilled to welcome the Class of 2018 to campus just a few weeks ago. The Kathleen Abels ’09 most diverse class in Haverford’s history by every measure, this class promises to add so Associate Director of Admission much to our community; we look forward to watching their experiences unfold and to Territories: CA (Northern), CO, NY seeing how they help to shape Haverford. (Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, Queens, & Brooklyn) And of course we are excited to be working with you once again in our shared endeavor of supporting students in this extraordinary process. We wish you the very best and Charlie Leizear look forward to connecting with you soon. Senior Assistant Director of Admission Territories: CA (Greater Los Angeles), All my best, NY (Upstate), Africa, Americas, Asia, Jess Lord Dean of Admission & Financial Aid Australia/Oceania, Caribbean, China, Middle East Janela Harris ’14 Admission Counselor Quick Facts Territories: AK, AL, AR, FL, Home School, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, MI, MN, Founded in 1833, loan burden of $3,000 per Many Haverford students, MO, MS, MT, NE, OH, OK, PA Haverford is the OLDEST year for all students. especially juniors, take COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY IN advantage of the College’s (Philadelphia), SC, UT, VT, WI, WV Haverford’s 216-acre NORTH AMERICA WITH various STUDY ABROAD campus is a NATIONALLY QUAKER ORIGINS. PROGRAMS (over 60 RECOGNIZED ARBORETUM Aaron Levine ’14 programs in more than 30 Haverford is located on the and has more than 400 Admission Counselor countries). Recently, Main Line, EIGHT MILES species of trees and shrubs. Territories: CT, DC, MA, MD (Western, students have studied at WEST OF DOWNTOWN THE TREE: STUDENT RATIO the London School of Southern, Montgomery & Prince PHILADELPHIA. IS 3.25:1. The campus Economics; Cambridge and George’s Counties), PA (Northeastern, landscape plan was Haverford is among the Oxford Universities; the originally designed by Central, & Western), TN, VA few colleges and University of Botswana; William Carvill, an English universities in the United the University of gardener. Shane Trujillo States that practice Melbourne, Australia; Admission Counselor need-blind admission for There are more than 2,000 Universidad de Chile in U.S. citizens and CROSS-REGISTRATIONS Santiago; and the Sophia Territories: AZ, GA, NC, NJ, NM, NV permanent residents. between Haverford and University in Tokyo. HAVERFORD MEETS THE Bryn Mawr each year. In Haverford also has Carly Valenzuela FULL FINANCIAL NEED OF addition, a small exchange programs with Admission Counselor ALL ADMITTED STUDENTS percentage of Haverford other colleges, including Territories: CA (San Diego & Orange who are eligible according students choose to major Claremont McKenna to the College’s formula at either Bryn Mawr or and Pitzer in California and Counties), HI, LA, MD (Eastern Shore and procedures. Haverford Swarthmore. Spelman in Atlanta. & Central, including Baltimore), ND, NY is committed to minimizing Haverford is part of the (Long Island, Rockland & Westchester student debt with NO QUAKER CONSORTIUM with Counties), PA (Bucks County), SD, TX, LOANS FOR STUDENTS WITH Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, WY, Puerto Rico FAMILY INCOMES UNDER and The University of $60,000 and a maximum Pennsylvania. 2 HONOR CODE The College has one of the OLDEST HONOR CODES IN THE UNITED STATES and one of very few with a social dimension. Established over 100 years ago, the Code is not a set of rules but a student-ratified, student-run system of SELF-GOVERNANCE IN BOTH ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE. Under the Honor Code, Haverford students are expected to develop and maintain a strong sense of personal responsibility, intellectual integrity, honesty, and genuine concern for others. In academic life, the Code manifests itself in many ways, most notably in take-home tests and unproctored final exams. The Code helps to create a very collaborative academic environment, one focused on learning for its own sake. It is visible early in the life of a Haverfordian; NO FINANCIAL DEPOSIT IS REQUIRED of students who choose to enroll at Haverford. What should you know about Haverford? 61% of our faculty live on campus Our faculty members are internationally recognized thought- leaders dedicated to working closely with undergraduates. At large research institutions, it can be difficult to connect with professors—but the experience here is designed to maximize the amount of time students spend in direct collaboration with faculty. DEGREE PARTNERSHIPS We’re part of the Quaker Consortium Our partnership programs allow students to Our four-college exchange program with Bryn Mawr, pursue an ACCELERATED COURSE OF STUDY in a Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania allows us graduate degree at the following institutions. Our to retain the strengths of the small college experience, while engineering program with The University of offering the expanded resources usually found at a larger Pennsylvania, for example, grants a B.S. from university. Haverford students can take a staggering array of Haverford and a Master’s in Engineering from classes at any of the Quaker Consortium schools. Penn in just five years. Our full list of programs: 4 + 1 ENGINEERING MASTER’S DEGREE WITH Academic Centers fund high-level research THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Our three Academic Centers take students beyond the traditional confines of the classroom. Whether research 4 + 1 BIOETHICS MASTER’S DEGREE WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA takes place on campus or across the globe, the Centers allow students to design and fund their own high-level scholarship 3 + 2 CITY PLANNING MASTER’S DEGREE (MCP) WITH and engage directly with what they are studying in the natural THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA sciences, social sciences, or humanities. 5 YEAR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES MASTER’S DEGREE WITH GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY All students complete a Senior Thesis 1 YEAR FINANCE MASTER’S DEGREE WITH Haverford is one of a very few institutions in the country that CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE includes a Senior Thesis project as part of every student’s academic program. Students become true scholars, and 4 + 2 EAST ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM WITH come to understand at a deep and practical level what it ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY IN CHINA takes to create knowledge and to seek answers to challenging questions. 3 STUDENT BODY MAJORS Anthropology Archaeology Astronomy 52% 48% 35 % Astrophysics Biology 1,187 Chemistry Classical Culture & Society TOTAL ENROLLMENT WOMEN MEN STUDENTS OF COLOR Classical Languages Comparative Literature Computer Science ACADEMICS FACULTY Dance By The Numbers East Asian Language & Culture class size: % of classes with . Economics English 0% 100% 9:1 Fine Arts French & Francaphone Studies fewer than 10 students 36% STUDENT:FACULTY Geology RATIO fewer than 20 students 82.5% German fewer than 30 students 91.8% Greek Growth & Structure of Cities 50 students or more: 0.3% History 98% History of Art STUDENTS ALUMNI WHO ATTEND Interdisciplinary Physics WITH A MINOR OR GRADUATE SCHOOL Haverford students are admitted FULL-TIME FACULTY CONCENTRATION WITHIN FIVE YEARS to medical school, law school, WITH THE International Studies HIGHEST DEGREE Italian and other professional schools at IN THEIR FIELDS Latin rates that are significantly higher Linguistics % than the national average, and that Mathematics & Statistics 53 70% are comparable to those of other Music 23% Philosophy highly selective liberal arts colleges Physics FACULTY OF Political Science and universities. COLOR Psychology Religion Romance Languages HAVERFORD AROUND THE WORLD RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY Russian Sociology Spanish Current Haverford students have connections with FACULTY LIVING STUDENTS LIVING ON CAMPUS ON CAMPUS Statistics 64 countries around the globe. Theater CONCENTRATIONS & PROGRAMS Africana & African Studies • 10.6% of students come to Haverford from Biochemistry outside of the U.S. % 98% Biophysics 61 Creative Writing • Around half of all students will study abroad. Chinese • Each year the Center for Peace & Global