College welcomes Class of 2021
As they arrived on campus Wednesday and Thursday, Connecticut College’s newest camels were greeted by cheering student leaders, colorful signs and a simple message: Welcome home.
“This is where you will live for the next four years—a place of self-development, relationship and social responsibility; a place of intimate face-to-face interaction; a place of connections,” Dean of the College Jefferson Singer told the new students at a welcome assembly.
The 447 members of the Class of 2021 and 24 transfer students are an impressive group. They hail from 25 countries, including Belgium, China, Egypt, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Mauritius, Morocco, Pakistan, South Korea, Turkey and Vietnam, and they speak 28 languages, including Armenian, Bengali, Burmese, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Swahili, Tagalog and Urdu. Sixty-seven members of the class are the first in their families to go to college, while 18 are at least the second members of their families to attend Conn, and 73 percent graduated in the top 20 percent of their high school class.
