Wondering what Scripps students do after graduation?
With a strong background in interdisciplinary humanities and a rigorous liberal arts education behind them, Scripps graduates are prepared for just about anything.
On May 15, 212 Scripps seniors received their degrees at the college’s 81st Commencement ceremony.
Scripps had 14 Fulbright finalists this year, an impressive number for a small college. Eight members of the Class of 2011 will be Fulbright Scholars in countries ranging from Germany to Mongolia; six will be teaching English and the remaining two will be working on agricultural issues in Brazil and a political science project in Slovenia. Another student, a recipient of the Davis Project for Peace grant, will be working at a Community Education Center in Mali.
Other members of the graduating class will be entering the workforce at places such as Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Ernst & Young, Facebook, Teach for America, and Deloitte Consulting. They have been offered positions as teachers, marketing analysts, neuroscience lab research assistants, consulting associates, and one, as a professional ballerina. Their work will take them to France, Spain, and Thailand to teach English. Several will be working at embassies abroad or beginning their terms as Peace Corps volunteers.
Many of the Class of 2011 will be entering graduate school. They have received acceptances at Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, UCLA, USC and many other institutions. Members of the college’s recent graduating class will be pursuing masters’ and Ph.D. degrees in fields such as education, science journalism, city planning, history of art, biostatistics, cell biology, chemistry, ancient history, architecture, and social work.
While members of the Class of 2011 are scattered about the country and the world on their new adventures, we in the Admission Office have officially begun our summer. The director’s blog will be taking a hiatus for the next few months.
We wish you all the best for your summer, whatever it may bring.
Warm regards,
Margaret
Admission Counselor
