 New SESP students attend a convocation on September 13.  Social policy students meet with adviser Mark Hoffman for orientation.  At the September 18 dinner at the dean's house, (from left) David Yao, Joe Buckley, Brad Whitman, Alyssa Kerr, Danielle McLean, Sarah Rosenbaum and Josh Tajchman-Kaplan get acquainted.  Peer advisers (from left) Brian Drelicharz, Jackson Froliklong, Danny Fleishman, Beth Schneider, Jen Ochsner, Margaret Lewis, Kelly Kirkpatrick and Anna Torricelli.  The SESP Class of 2010 poses at the Arch.  SESP professor Miriam Sherin and freshmen Alex Spurlock, Joe Petrone, and Dana O'Neal gather at the September 18 dinner at the dean's house. |
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With 51 new students, the School of Education and Social Policy welcomed its largest freshman class in recent history this year, including students from across the United States. Likewise, at Northwestern as a whole, the Class of 2010 is the largest in history, with 2,071 enrollees culled from approximately 18,000 undergraduate applications, and has an average SAT score of 1401, one point shy of the University's record-high. Many of the new students said they selected SESP because of the small size of the School and the sense of community they noticed as prospective students. From September 11 to 18, new student orientation activities included a convocation, a dinner at the dean's house, individual advising, tours and group meetings. The freshmen met with their academic advisers as well as their peer advisers, nine upperclass volunteers selected for their leadership abilities. "By the end of New Student Week, it seemed to me that many friendships had already formed among the incoming students," says Susan Olson, SESP assistant dean for student affairs. "I am pleased to welcome SESP's largest incoming class, and I'm looking forward to the many contributions that this class will make to our school and community." Of the four concentrations for SESP undergraduates, social policy was the most widely selected by the Class of 2010. Eighteen students opted for social policy, compared with fourteen for human development and psychological services, twelve for secondary teaching, and six for learning and organizational change. |
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