As you spend the last minutes of your life as a College undergraduate and wait for your name to be read, do you have the feeling that you don't really know most of your classmates? Or maybe you feel as if you have not yet found yourself?
Well, here are some facts to give you a better sense of who you and the rest of your classmates are. While it doesn't come close to being an "All You Ever Wanted to Know About the '93s, But Were Afraid to Ask," it may answer some of your questions.
A total of 1039 of you matriculated in the Fall of 1989, with 589 men and 450 women. Minorities made up 17 percent of the entering class, with 63 African Americans, 63 Asian Americans, 34 Latinos and 22 Native Americans. Fourteen percent of you are children of alumni and you came from 48 states and 22 countries.
You scored a mean of 620 on your verbal SAT and 684 on the math section. There were 110 high school valedictorians, and 85 percent of you were in the top 10 percent of your high school class.
Fifty-nine percent of you came from public schools, 37 percent from private schools and four percent from parochial schools. Thirteen '93s, 10 men and three women, transferred to Dartmouth from other colleges.
A majority, 870 of you in all, preceded your matriculation with an outdoor adventure through the Dartmouth Outing Club's trips.
Consistent with the rest of the school, government is the most popular major in your class. It is followed by history, economics and then a tie between psychology and engineering. On the other side of the scale, two of you are graduating with majors in romance languages, one in French and the other in Italian.
While most of you are single majors, there are 123 double majors and even one triple major in philosophy, geography and math and social science. The grade point average of your class at the end of Winter Term was 3.25, or just below B plus.
A total of 464 of you spent 519 terms studying off-campus on either Language Study Abroad programs or Foreign Study Programs. Fifty-five of you went on 62 transfer terms, such as the exchange with the University of California - San Diego. Fifty-five of you participated in two LSA/FSP terms.
Greek life is an important part of the lives of many '93s. A total of 605 of you, 58 percent of the class, joined Greek societies.
Dartmouth's physical education requirement has posed problems for some of you. As of May 27, there were still eight of you who needed to pass the 50-yard swim test that counts as a graduation requirement.
And at the beginning of Spring Term, 67 seniors had not taken their required three terms of physical education. Several of you had to take two athletic courses this term to fulfill the requirement.
What comes after graduation? Approximately 425 of you participated in corporate recruiting through the Career Services Office. Of the 100 or so '93s who provided Career Services with their employment information (not necessarily participants in recruiting), about one third are entering the field of business consulting and one fourth are going into banking. Other popular career choices reported include advertising, law and computer technology.
Since the late 1970s, about three-fourths of each graduating class indicated their intention to study in graduate programs either immediately or within 5 yearsof graduation.
From the class of 1992, 23.2 percent entered graduate programs this fall, according to the Office of Graduate Advising. Statistics for the '93's entering graduate programs will not be completed until July.
