POUGHKEEPSIE – The 1,389 members of the Class of 2023 entered Marist College in the Town of Poughkeepsie this week.
A total of 1,262 class members will live on the main campus while 71 are commuters. Thirty-six students will spend their first year at the college’s campus in Florence, Italy while another 20 are in Ireland as part of the Freshman Dublin Experience, a program that began last year.
Close to 27 percent of the class of 2023 identify as people of color.
The incoming students hail for 32 states and some four percent are international students from 26 countries including Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, Singapore, Somalia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United Republic of Tanzania.
“Here we have a class with deep intellectual curiosity,” said Associate Vice President and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Kent Rinehart. “They have shown leadership in and outside of the classrooms and demonstrated a sincere interest in helping the community around them and the world at large.”
The new class is academically accomplished – 25 percent were ranked in the top 10 percent of their graduating high school classes. Four were valedictorians and two were salutatorians.
