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Meet the Class of 2002! On September 3, Smith welcomed 694 entering students of the Class of 2002, the results of one of the best recruiting years in the college's history. Some key facts about the class of 2002: 3,125 applications were received for the class, an increase of 4 percent over the previous year. Approximately 50 more students than expected accepted Smith's offers of admission, resulting in one of the largest classes in the history of the college. The class includes students from 62 countries. Thirty-six percent of the students are entering with Advanced Placement credit, reflecting significant college-level work. The class includes three Jean Picker International Fellows, outstanding foreign nationals who receive significant stipends to study at Smith, as well as internship and faculty mentoring opportunities. This year's Picker Fellows come from Greece, Turkey and Singapore. The class also includes six Smith International Scholars, outstanding students from abroad who receive stipends for summer internships, either in the U.S. or other countries. Past SIS internship sites have included the Swiss Bank Corporation, Basel, Switzerland; the Asia Monitor Resource Center, Hong Kong; and an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro. This year's SIS group comes from Jamaica, Pakistan, Portugal, Guatemala, Sri Lanka and India. Entering students also include 60 Ada Comstock Scholars. Among the incoming Adas are an executive secretary from Chicago, a hair stylist from California, an artist from Miami and a journalist from Seattle. New to the college as well will be 80 transfer students. As part of their orientation program, all entering students were asked to read Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, an autobiography by Eva Hoffman, whose Eastern European Jewish family emigrated to Canada from Poland after World War II. During orientiation, students met in small groups with faculty members to discuss the reading and reflect on their own journeys as beginning college students, and later gathered for tea with Hoffman. Also new is a pilot program of first-year seminars, designed to enhance the level of intellectual excitement and engagement in the first year. Entering students are also eligible to enroll in "Smith Life & Learning," a new noncredit program designed to ease the transition to college life and build friendships among students from different houses. |
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