Meet Current Haverford Students

Brian Rucker

Washington, D.C.

Rucker took part in Operation Understanding DC, which teaches African Americans and Jewish Americans about each other’s cultures in order to foster understanding.

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Taha Ahsin

Brooklyn, New York

Helped found his high school's Young Entrepreneur Association and created a South Asian Culture Club that helped unite groups that had been at odds

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Kate O'Brien

Park Ridge, Illinois

She presented a paper on Studs Terkel at the Oral History Association National Symposium.

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Janela Harris

Cincinnati, Ohio

Harris participated in the Kenyon College Young Writer's Program and led a Women Writing for (a) Change Foundation writing workshop.

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Jake Riiska

Norfolk, Connecticut

While on an exchange in South Africa, Riiska met Bishop Tutu and made an unauthorized trip to a township, staying there overnight by himself.

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Anjali Baliga

Princeton Junction, New Jersey

Baliga was the 2009 New Jersey State Champion Fencer in Epee in her senior year of high school.

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Carson Wills

Albuquerque, New Mexico

As the Founder and Director of Project Snuggliheads, Wills has donated over 350 hats and 300 blankets to pediatric cancer patients throughout New Mexico in the last seven years.

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Jacob Lowy

Dobbs Ferry, New York

Lowy did a summer internship with U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer.

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Jon Sweitzer-Lamme

Durham, North Carolina

During a summer spent interning with both a gay and lesbian advocacy group and with the North Carolina legislature Sweitzer-Lamme got to work for gay rights legislation and see it passed right before his eyes.

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Rilka Spieler

New York, New York

Spieler was a senior planetarium intern for the American Museum of Natural History for two years.

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Chris Boukas

Manhasset, New York

Boukas was both all-state tenor and the goalie on the 2009 New York state lacrosse championship team.

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Noemi Agagianian

Sunland, California

After training for a year with the organization Students Run L.A., she completed the Los Angeles Marathon in March.

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Kostyantyn “Kostya” Viktorov

Princeton, New Jersey

Viktorov is a nationally ranked competitive rock climber.

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Michael Rushmore

London, England

He took a gap year to curate an exhibit in London on street art and produce an accompanying coffee table book.

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Josh Thorn

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Thorn is the National Catholic Forensic League 2010 National Champion in Policy Debate.

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Steven Slagt

Deventer, Netherlands

Slagt left home at age 15 to attend his country’s top dance school in Amsterdam and spent a year before college in Japan, where he was certified in the traditional tea ceremony.

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Sophie Eiger

North Wales, Pennsylvania

Eiger honed her leadership and fundraising skills as student government president at her high school and through her involvement with state and national student council organizations.

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Caileigh Feldman

Crownsville, Maryland

Feldman helped launch a “Kilowatt Kickoff” event at her high school that focused the school community on saving energy.

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Guadalupe Gomez

Inglewood, California

Gomez spent two summers in the Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) at Drexel University, which is designed to help minority students go into medical research careers.

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Profile of the Class of 2015

Overview

Number applied: 3470
Rate of admission: 25%
Total number enrolled: 335

Academic Profile

% ranking in top 10% of high school class: 93.8%
Middle 50% for SAT Critical Reasoning: 650-750
Middle 50% for SAT Math: 650-750
Middle 50% for SAT Writing: 660-760

Personal Profile

Men: 45%
Women: 55%
Students of Color: 35%
Quakers: 4%
Parent Legacies: 7%
Other Legacies: 7%
Neither parent attended college: 12%
One parent did not attend college: 12.5%
Speak a language other than English at home: 19%

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