SIXTY-FOUR STUDENTS, 32 colleges. Here's where you'll find the Class of 2008 next year, or at least most of the class. Six seniors plan to take the 2008-09 school year off before starting college.
As usual, the most popular destination is right here at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with 24 seniors choosing the U of I.
The next most popular school is Grinnell College, with four seniors heading to the Iowa school.
Four seniors will attend an Ivy League college: Ethan Berl, Princeton; Jessica Stark, Cornell; Ruth Welch, Dartmouth; and Alex Zhai, Harvard.
The West Coast attracted six seniors: Geoffrey Beck, Caltech; Micah Berman, Pomona; Shara Esbenshade, Stanford; Marika Iyer and Shivani Khanna, UC Berkeley; and Eunice How, Washington.
Here is the complete list of Uni's 64 seniors. The Gargoyle would like to thank Lisa Micele, Uni's director of college counseling, for providing the information. We have organized the list alphabetically by college. The name of each college is linked to that school's official Web site.
- Amherst College
Andrea Park, undeclared
- Austin College
Chelsea Freeland, undeclared
- Boston University
Samantha Nguyen, undeclared
- California Institute of Technology
Geoffrey Beck, physics/chemistry
- Carnegie Mellon University
Aliisa Rantanen, industrial design
- College of William and Mary
Carl Zielinski, undeclared
- Cornell University
Jessica Stark, chemical engineering
- Dartmouth College
Ruth Welch,* government/German
- Duke University
Lucy Zhang, undeclared
- Grinnell College
Paul Dampier, undeclared
Madeleine Garvey, undeclared
Samuel Imlay, history
Zoë Schein, undeclared
- Harvard University
Alex Zhai, mathematics
- Haverford College
Jacob Olshansky, biology
Jacob Seeley, undeclared
- Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Bozada, biomedical engineering
Linda Song, public health
- Kansas State University
Jamie Weiser, undeclared
- Northern Illinois University
Aaron Kelter, undeclared
- Oberlin College
Sarah Pfander,* undeclared
Amy Wiltzius, undeclared
- Oxford College of Emory University
Hannah Lake-Rayburn, undeclared
- Pomona College
Micah Berman, undeclared
- Princeton University
Ethan Berl,* computer science
- Purdue University
Elizabeth Peregrine, undeclared
- Rhode Island School of Design
Anna Cangellaris, undeclared
- Saint Louis University
Adriana Black, health sciences
- St. Olaf College
Daniel McNamara, environmental studies
- Stanford University
Shara Esbenshade, history or media studies
- Temple University
Kimberle Pillow, art
- University of California at Berkeley
Marika Iyer, undeclared
Shivani Khanna, biochemistry
- University of Chicago
Julian Hartman, undeclared
Larissa Pittenger, undeclared
- University of Illinois at Chicago
Aran Yoo, guaranteed medical program/biology
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Emily Chu, international studies
Joshua Chung, psychology
Michelle Gao, business
Jie Han, business
Erin Hayes, undeclared
Angela Jin, chemical and biomolecular engineering
Claire Johnson, biochemical engineering
Katherine LaPointe,* undeclared
Joseph Leigh, computer science
Grant Loos, Spanish
Ran Ma, business
Franklin McFarland, community health
Michelle Mehnert, civil engineering
Christopher Nixon, engineering/computer science
Isaac Radnitzer, business/finance
Ammar Rizwan, undeclared
Austin Rundus, biology
Kathleen Ryan, biology
Kumars Salehi, interdisciplinary studies/cinema studies
Ethan Stone,* civil engineering
Bhaskar Vaidya, mechanical engineering
Chumar Williams, community health
Karen Woodley, linguistics
Suran Yoo, undeclared
- University of Michigan
Jennifer Roloff, music performance/LAS
- University of Notre Dame
Michael Renner, business
- University of Washington at Seattle
Eunice How, public health
- Year Off
Rachel Hurley
* Taking a year off before attending