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Mount Holyoke College received more than 5,000 applications for the first time and admitted its most diverse class in history.
“Always attend office hours. That’s my biggest advice. That’s how you slowly start to build your relationships.”
How has Arielle Darivel’s life changed after her Mount Holyoke College senior profile in 2017? It’s been a whirlwind of a master’s degree program, nonprofit work and studying for law school admission.
Mount Holyoke College is the recipient of a six-year grant of $529,500 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) through the Science Education Program’s Inclusive Excellence 3 initiative.
Deepika Kumawat ’24 has been finding opportunities to lead and build community, in and out of the classroom. A physics major with a Nexus in education policy and practice, Deepika is a teaching assistant for statistics and a Peer-Led Undergraduate Mentoring System (PLUMS) mentor for physics. She also serves on the 2024 class board, the Association of Women in Mathematics and Mount Holyoke Mock Trial, and will be the president of the First Generation and Low Income Partnership during the 2022–2023 academic year. Deepika’s best takeaway from her research experience is “whenever you go into a new field, you won’t know everything about it, and being open about what you know and don’t know is the best way to approach things.”
“The College doesn’t teach you how to think; [it] give[s] you the resources to think on your own.”
Mount Holyoke has received national recognition for its demonstrated commitment to advancing first-generation college student success.
Mount Holyoke taught me “Mount Holyoke connected me to a world that gave me access to the impossible,” says Mary Ann Villarreal ’94, the first in her family to attend college. “I give back because I felt like Mount Holyoke was my home and I want other people to find their home too.”
At Mount Holyoke I found access to professors and mentors who helped me navigate the intersections in my identity within the unfamiliar realm of higher education.
Kerstin Nordstrom of Mount Holyoke College was one of just 24 scientists — and the only physicist from a liberal arts college — selected to be a Cottrell Scholar.
