Ad hoc committee welcomed the Class of 2020
TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE – Some 660 freshman began classes at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie on Monday. Those new students represent about 27 percent of the 7,306 applicants to the four-year, liberal arts college.
A total of 68 percent of the new class members were ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school class. The class is diverse in a number of ways – 33.5 percent are students of color, 88 percent are first-generation college students, and some 16 percent are international with either foreign or dual citizenship.
The class comes to Vassar from 44 states and 30 countries, with international students from Albania, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Swaziland, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingston and Vietnam.
