Class of 2010
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The Class of 2010 entered Carleton in September 2006.
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Admissions Process
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the class of 2010 was smaller than previous years, and had many highly-educated students.
- "We had a higher number of students with the strongest academic credentials accepting our offers of admission," says Paul Thiboutot, dean of admissions at Carleton College, in Minnesota. "We had thought they would have other options that they would have chosen."
- Carleton extended 70 fewer offers of admission this year, and Mr. Thiboutot had anticipated that the college's yield would drop from 27 percent to 25 percent. Instead, the number stayed the same."
Class profile
The 2010 profile published by the college lists some of the following accomplishments by entering Carls:
- One was a sergeant in the English Royal Air Force Cadets.
- One spent more than 300 hours restoring Elissa, a 19th-century sailing ship.
- One had a year-long internship with the United Steelworkers of America.
- One completed an intense ethnography of the Kuna people in the San Blas islands of Panama.
- Languages spoken fluently include American Sign Language, Bengali, Chinese, Finnish, French, Garifuna, German, Guarani, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Jicarilla Apache, Kalenjin, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Norwegian, Persian, Russian, Siswati, Spanish, Swedish, Tigrinya, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
Events peculiar to the class of 2010
The Common Reading for the Class of 2010 was Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi. Ms. Satrapi spoke in Minneapolis in late October; several Carleton students attended.
