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This viewbook for Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts shares facts and general knowledge about the College as well as 17 unique and innovative ideas connected to the student experience.

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Page 1: The Wheaton Year in Ideas
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General Knowledge about Wheaton

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The Wheaton Edge Our Guarantee to Every Student

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Specific Facts about Our Academic Experience,

the Campus and the Region

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The Year in Ideas

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Helpful Information about Admission and Financial Aid, plus a Sketch of Life after Wheaton

CONTAINING

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Brought to you by 1,600 students and 150 professors who don’t take anything for granted,

love a good debate and believe, really believe, that some of the most important, unexpected,

possibly world-changing ideas can come from a liberal arts college on a 400-acre campus set

between Boston and Providence.

The Wheaton Year in Ideas

(Pleasingly Controversial)

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General Knowledgeabout Wheaton4

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1,600 students

39 states 72 countries15–20 students

in the average class

Nearly $1.2 million dedicated annually tostudent research, travel and internships

student-runclubs andOrganizations

scholarships and fellowships (Rhodes, Fulbright, etc.) won by students since 2000

80+ study abroad programs

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21 NCAA Division III athletic teams

35%of students

receive scholarships for academic merit

205+

97%success rate

for graduatessix months out

Founded:

183447 majors

59 Minors

Network of 15,000 graduates across the country and around the world

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General Knowledgeabout Wheaton4

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1,600 students

39 states 72 countries15–20 students

in the average class

Nearly $1.2 million dedicated annually tostudent research, travel and internships

student-runclubs andOrganizations

scholarships and fellowships (Rhodes, Fulbright, etc.) won by students since 2000

80+ study abroad programs

600

cour

ses

11 to 1 student

to faculty ratio

21 NCAA Division III athletic teams

35%of students

receive scholarships for academic merit

205+

97%success rate

for graduatessix months out

Founded:

183447 majors

59 Minors

Network of 15,000 graduates across the country and around the world

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The Wheaton Edge is our guarantee

that you and every student will

have the opportunity for a funded

internship, research position or

experiential learning opportunity

before your senior year. It’s also the

personalized support from professors

and staff, our distinctive Connections

curriculum that links the liberal arts to

the world, and the power we give you

and your fellow students to shape

campus life and develop leadership

skills. Our students do all sorts of

exciting things—from working at major

investment firms and Fortune 500

companies to assisting on independent

film projects and teaching English

to high school students in Rwanda.

We can’t wait to see what you will do with the Wheaton Edge.

OUR GUARANTEE

to you and every student

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Our most recent graduates, the classes of 2014 and 2015,

are a perfect example. Six months after graduation,

97 percent of these graduates had found their first job,

enrolled in graduate school, begun a fellowship or

pursued an experience in public service.

SUCCESS RATE

OUR GUARANTEE

to you and every student

”96% Success Rate

Data based on a knowledge rate of 76 percent for the classes of 2014 and 2015

97% Success Rate

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Specific

Factsabout Our

Academic Experience, the Campus

and the Region

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African, African American, Diaspora Studies

American Studies

Ancient Studies

Anthropology

Art History

Astronomy and Physics

Biochemistry

Bioinformatics

Biology

Business and Management

Chemistry

Classical Civilization

Classics

Computer Science

Creative Writing and Literature

Economics

Education

English

Environmental Science

Film and New Media Studies

French Studies

German

German Studies

Greek

Hispanic Studies

History

International Relations

Italian Studies

Latin

Mathematics

Mathematics and Computer Science

Mathematics and Economics

Music

Neuroscience

Philosophy

Physics

Political Science

Psychology

Religion

Russian Language and Literature

Russian Studies

Sociology

Studio Art

Theatre and Dance Studies

Women’s and Gender Studies

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CONNECTIONS Students choose sets of two

or three courses of interest, often from very different

disciplines, organized around a common theme,

e.g., Biology and Art, Politics and the Environment,

Psychology and Business, New Media and Society.

This part of our curriculum promotes critical

thinking and out-of-the-box problem-solving skills—

vital in today’s dynamic and complex world.

FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS One of the

first courses you’ll take, and a foundation for the

academic experience to come: feisty, deep-thinking,

wide-ranging, head-spinning. Examples: “The

Economics of Sports,” “Visualizing Circus:

From Freaks and Geeks to Cirque du Soleil,”

“1968: The Year the World Exploded,” “The Selfie

and More (Much More),” “The Rituals of Dinner,”

“Storytelling Through Google Maps” and

“A More Sour Pang: The Psychology of Illness.”

OFF-CAMPUS PROGRAMS A few of

the many ways to extend your Wheaton experience:

semester-long programs at other institutions,

which could involve field research, an internship,

travel, intensive creative work or celestial navigation.

Examples: the Marine Biological Laboratory at

Woods Hole, the National Theater Institute at the

Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the Salt Institute

for Documentary Studies, the Washington Semester

at American University and the Williams-Mystic

Maritime Studies Program. Wheaton is also a member

of the Twelve College Exchange Program, which

allows students to spend their junior year at one of the

other member schools, including Amherst, Bowdoin,

Wellesley and Wesleyan.

To learn more, go to: wheatoncollege.edu/academics.

MAJORS AND MINORS 47 majors and 59

minors? Isn’t that rather ambitious for a liberal arts

college with 1,600 students? It is, it is. You can also

design your own major, take a dual-degree program

with another fine school, or cross-register for courses

at Brown, in nearby Providence. For much more, go

to wheatoncollege.edu and click through Academics.

Animal Behavior

Asian Studies

Astronomy

Community Health

Dance

Development Studies

Environmental Studies

Jewish Studies

Journalism Studies

Additional Minors

Latin American Studies

Legal Studies

Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Peace and Social Justice

Public Health Science

Public Policy Studies

Statistics

Urban Studies

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RESEARCH All of our resources are designed

to help you do it; our faculty actually sit around and

think of cutting-edge projects that require collabo-

ration with students; and once you do it, it leads to

more, and then to graduate school, and then to other

inspiring places. A few recent faculty-student projects

offered through our Wheaton Research Partnerships:

• Analyzing Ethiopian Visual Culture: Monuments, Murals and Museums

• Cognitive Effects of Video Game Play

• A Development Critique of Micro-Enterprise

• Mining Memory: Reimagining Self and Nation Through Narratives of Childhood in Peru

•Effect of Panax notoginseng on Angiogenesis, the Growth of Blood Vessels

• Filmmaking Assistantship

• Probing Accretion Physics Near Black Holes and Neutron Stars

• The Nature of Obesity Prejudice

• Legitimate Lies and Forbidden Truths

• Religious Devotion and Monumental Transformation in Nepal

INTERNSHIPS Every student has the

opportunity to do at least one with funding from

the college. Some are paid positions, some involve

research or fieldwork, some are in other parts of

the world, many lead to jobs or to a full-scale

reimagining of what your life might look like.

A few recent examples: William J. Clinton Foundation,

Child Family Health International, Department of

Homeland Security, HBO and the Raptor Trust.

GLOBAL EDUCATION About half of our

students study abroad. Our Center for Global

Education offers access to more than 80 specialized,

intensive study abroad programs (i.e., not cleverly

disguised excuses to be a tourist) on nearly every

continent. The center also sponsors Wheaton-

only initiatives like our one-of-a-kind program in

Bhutan, plus short-term, faculty-led programs;

recent examples include Innovative Music

Traditions of Trinidad and Tobago , Tropical Field

Biology in Costa Rica and Belize, and Arts in Ireland.

For more, go to: wheatoncollege.edu/global.

MARSHALL CENTER FOR INTER- CULTURAL LEARNING A resource for

anyone who believes that understanding other

cultures is essential to a liberal arts education—

which we’re hoping is everyone. The center sponsors

cultural events and offers workshops, academic and

career advising, and a genuine sense of community.

THE CAMPUS It’s lovely. Red brick buildings,

grassy lawns (including the Dimple, a unique

landmark in the heart of the campus),

public art, Peacock Pond and 300 acres of

woodlands. Most students live on campus, so it feels

family-ish. When people come here for the first time,

they say things like, “This just feels right,” or, “I feel at

home here,” or, “What in the world is a Cowduck?”

(Answer: That’s the name of our longtime resident

duck, who was white with black spots resembling

those of a cow and is memorialized with a student-

created bronze sculpture on Peacock Pond.)

ACTIVITIES More than 100 student-run

clubs and organizations; a student-run coffee-

house (The Lyon’s Den); regular concerts by student

and national bands; monthly campus-wide

throw-downs, often sponsored by a club (e.g., the

Antiquities Club hosted a Toga Dance); a popular

Drag Show; a thriving chapter of the Roosevelt

Institute, a national think tank—so, yes, we’re active.

Special note: Our a cappella groups have a stupefying

amount of social capital. Midnight initiation ceremonies,

complicated nicknames, feverish crowds at their

concerts—they’re a big deal is what we’re saying.08

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ATHLETICS Our varsity teams win NEWMAC

and ECAC and national championships (recent stand-

outs: baseball, lacrosse, softball, soccer, track and field),

our entire program is nationally recognized, and in

the past decade hundreds of our student-athletes

have been All-Americans. Our student-initiated,

student-run club sports (recent examples: men’s

and women’s rugby, men’s and women’s ice hockey,

fencing) offer spirited intercollegiate competition, and

our intramural program is wildly popular. Through

the magic of the Web, you can learn much more.

Go to: wheatoncollege.edu/athletics.

NCAA Division III Athletic Teams

Baseball (M)

Basketball (W, M)

Cross Country (W, M)

Field Hockey (W)

Lacrosse (W, M)

Soccer (W, M)

Softball (W)

Swimming and Diving (W, M)

Synchronized Swimming (W)

Tennis (W, M)

Track and Field (W, M)

Volleyball (W)

NORTON, MASS. Norton is a town in the sense

that 20,000 people, a traditional New England town

common, a post office, three drugstores, a handful of

other stores and an excellent liberal arts college make

a town. It’s in an undiscovered part of Massachusetts,

20 miles from Providence (in Rhode Island), 35 miles

from Boston, and close to several well-resourced

suburbs (Moroccan food, Thai food, public transpor-

tation to the cities). It’s not in the middle of nowhere;

it’s in the middle of somewhere very, very important.

BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE Let us

merely hint at the magnificent things you will find

in these two cities, both of which are historic and

walkable and lovable yet also forward-looking and

complex and endlessly new. Boston: the North

End, the Museum of Fine Arts, Quincy Market,

Fenway Park, Newbury Street, the Boston Symphony

Orchestra, the Swan Boats, and 250,000 people

in college. Providence: a general feeling of friendly

hipness, several nationally renowned restaurants,

many locally beloved restaurants, a lot of startup

ventures in the arts, new media and high technology,

plus many more people in college.

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The Year in ideas

The On-CampusFARMERS MARKET

Doing Something AmazingAFTER GRADUATION

GETTING READYfor What Comes Next POTATO TACOS

Throwing an ACADEMIC FESTIVALTHEMED LIVING

10-MINUTE PLAYS

MAKING SPACEto Make Whatever We Can Imagine

CHANGINGTHE WORLD

right now

Crowding into an Of�ce to Talk about

NATIONALISM and MARGINALIZATION

Building the FUTURE OF SCIENCE

Someone had an IDEA ABOUT IDEAS

and then this happened

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KEY TO THEKINGDOM

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PLAYING SOCCERon a World Stage

BUSINESSof the Future

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The Year in ideas

The On-CampusFARMERS MARKET

Doing Something AmazingAFTER GRADUATION

GETTING READYfor What Comes Next POTATO TACOS

Throwing an ACADEMIC FESTIVALTHEMED LIVING

10-MINUTE PLAYS

MAKING SPACEto Make Whatever We Can Imagine

CHANGINGTHE WORLD

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NATIONALISM and MARGINALIZATION

Building the FUTURE OF SCIENCE

Someone had an IDEA ABOUT IDEAS

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Students wanted one, students

organized one, and now it’s a weekly

event. Held on the Dimple (our quad)

in spring and fall and in the Balfour-

Hood Center in winter. Featuring

fresh fruits and vegetables, artisanal

cheeses, herbs, breads and pastries,

all grown or made by local farmers

or bakers or cheesemongers and

so on. Also featuring dishes

prepared on site by AfterTaste,

the student-run slow food group.

FARMERSMARKET

The On-Campus

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In each one of our 17 student-run

theme houses, students with shared

interests (world health, outdoor

education, sustainability) cook and do

chores and generally live like real

people in a house. Rosemary Liss (with

the lovely orange scarf, at a shared

meal at ECCO House) stayed in the

House of the Living Arts for three

years. “We do a lot of cooking together,

which turns out to be a huge benefit.

It’s a way of spending quality time

with friends. And there are bigger

social and cultural meanings to meals,

too, which I discovered in a First-Year

Seminar called ‘The Rituals of Dinner.’

Wheaton is all about going at subjects

from different perspectives.”

THEMED LIVING

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On a spring afternoon, the campus

stops, and dozens of students present

research or creative work on which

they’ve labored for many months.

There’s a festival-like feeling in the

air (congratulations, amazement,

revelations, free snacks), and so we

call this the Academic Festival.

Throwing an ACADEMIC FESTIVAL

THEMED LIVING

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Shawn Christian makes the case:

“Studying literature can prepare you

to participate in, and contribute to,

a truly diverse democracy. It provokes

an exchange of ideas, it exposes you to

a range of human experience, and it

shows the power of language in action.

Learning to respect a poem, a novel or

a theory, even if you disagree with it,

builds the skills that it takes to navigate

Building DEMOCRACY by Being LITERARY

our very dynamic and consistently

diverse world.” Shawn Christian

(shown being teacherly) is a professor

of English and African American

studies. He also directs the Summer

Institute for Literary and Cultural

Studies, a national program that

prepares college students from

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The world needs inventive,

broad-minded leaders who see,

and make, the connections that are

not obvious to everyone else.

That’s why our business and

management major takes the

wide view. Sure, our program

spans the range of thought and

practice of the field, from micro- and

macroeconomics to marketing and

applied ethics. But it also cultivates

the ability to think creatively, ask

hard questions and innovate across

industries—from for-profits to

nonprofits to organizations in

developing countries, and beyond.

Business of the

FUTURE

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PLAYING SOCCERon a World Stage

has been head coach of women’s

soccer for 19 years and has won

nearly every honor there is to win.

(Speaking of “overachievers,”

former midfielder Carolyn Wills is

one of three Wheaton students to

have earned a Rhodes Scholarship.)

Our women’s soccer team, led by

coach Luis Reis, traveled to Buenos

Aires to get some international

competition and explore another

culture—their third international

spring training trip since 2008.

Previous destinations include

Barcelona and Lisbon. Luis Reis

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Like getting a prestigious funded

scholarship or fellowship to pursue

high-level research, professional

experience or community

engagement around the world.

We’ve also produced a

disproportionate number of

Rhodes Scholars, Truman Scholars

and Watson Fellows (like Nana Asare,

who spent this year studying

grassroots public health initiatives

around the globe).

Doing Something AMAZING AFTER GRADUATION

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AMAZING AFTER GRADUATION

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MAKING SPACEto Make Whatever We Can Imagine

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Professor Tom Armstrong turned

his private lab space into a place where

students can play games, experiment,

develop research and get up to their

elbows in the latest technologies.

The DIY spirit is alive and well here.

Students experience great successes—

and spectacular failures. Tom likes to

say the lab promotes “the cross-pollination

of ideas,” where an artist might sit

next to a scientist and develop a

project that blends art, science and

technology into something new.

It’s a space for crossing boundaries,

where students reach new heights

every day (by building remote-

control airplanes, for example).

All this activity calls for the right

equipment, and the lab has it all—

tools, wires, spare parts, games,

LEGOs, computers in every size and

other bits and pieces—lining tables

and piling up in the corners.

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Building a 99,000-square-foot, LEED gold-certified

CENTER for the

FUTUREof

SCIENCEWe call it the Mars Center for Science

and Technology. It recently won the

equivalent of a gold medal for being

environmentally friendly. The future

of science, by the way, is collaborative,

which explains the glass partitions

dividing the center’s 23 research labs

and 12 teaching labs, the specially

designed multiuse labs to encourage

cross-disciplinary study, the café, and

the welcoming group-study spaces.

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changing the world right now

A good way to get started is to just

get started on whatever topic you

happen to be interested in, and

the ideas and energy that you have.

Our president, Dennis M. Hanno,

is an expert on innovation and

leadership, so that’s what he

shares—with students on our

campus and in Africa, where he

takes Wheaton students to help

high school students dream big.

He’s not alone. Our faculty and

students apply their talents here

in Norton and in nearby Boston,

where Wheaton has partnered with

the world’s largest startup accelerator,

MassChallenge, as well as around

the globe. It’s the sort of experience

that transforms lives.

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Someone had

an idea about ideas

and then this happened.

The students who run our chapter

of the Roosevelt Institute, a national

public policy organization for

undergraduates, decided to highlight

some of the most interesting ideas

on campus. The result: WheaTalks,

our own homegrown version of TED

Talks. The plan is simple but pure

genius. From a pile of proposals,

10 people get 10 minutes each to

present a passion, a fascination or an

obsession. The range is enormous:

from the portrayal of women in video

games and Internet security to the

untapped potential of fungi. It was a

hit the first time it happened, and it’s

only gotten bigger since. It’s the kind

of intellectual excitement you always

imagined happened at college.

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Crowding into an Office to Talk about

NATIONALISM and

MARGINALIZATIONLike these five students in Professor

Dolita Cathcart’s “History 337: Power

and Protest in the U.S.” “On the first

day of class, I ask my students to be

brave, to stick their necks out and say

what they believe, but to do so with

respect for others. We’re working

with difficult subjects, and we’re

going to sit around a table or in an

office and try to face them squarely.

We have to be honest with each other,

hold ourselves to high standards and

challenge ourselves to meet them.

In the end, we’re trying to think for

ourselves, based on our own research.

We’re doing serious work—but we try

to have fun to boot.” Dolita Cathcart

specializes in history; African, African

American and diaspora studies;

and women’s and gender studies.

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Part of our New Plays Festival,

featuring work written, directed and

produced by students, and performed

in front of packed houses at the

Kresge Experimental Theater.

Students write a 10-minute play based

on a random object produced by a

visiting artist—then scramble to

stage it in a week or so.

10-Minute PLAYS

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KEY TO THE KINGDOM

Five years ago, we were the first in

the world to offer a study abroad

program in Bhutan. Now, every fall

and spring, another group of

students spends a semester studying

at Royal Thimphu College in the

world’s last Buddhist kingdom. It’s

a special relationship made stronger

by the fact that King of Bhutan Jigme

Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck studied

at Wheaton. Along with taking

courses, students choose an

internship: running a radio talk

show, cataloging herbal medicines

or training Buddhist nuns to use a

computer, to name a few. They learn

about Bhutanese music, art, language

and history; explore the Himalayan

Mountains; engage in a service

project; and drink lots and lots of tea.

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PHOTOS BY: BRUCE OWENS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY

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Getting Ready for

WHATCOMES NEXT

People (usually adults) will advise you

to think about the future. We’ve got

a few suggestions for the present so

that the future takes care of itself.

Start with the thousands of summer

opportunities available to Wheaton

students around the globe. Add $1.2

million in funding to guarantee that

every student has the opportunity to

participate in an internship, research

position or service project. Plus a staff

of professional advisors who help

students plan for grad school and

careers in business, medicine and more.

Top it off with a network of loyal

alumni ready to offer career advice.

We call it the Filene Center for Career

Services, but you could also call it the

place where dreams flourish.

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Also lemon bars and chocolate chip

cookies. Made by history professor

Dana Polanichka (shown here

without tacos) and served in class

or at dinner with students at her house.

Yes, she’s one of the sharpest young

medievalists in the field, but she makes

time to cook for students—and recruit

them to, say, help her research and

write a book about women in the court

of Charlemagne—because (as they

said in eighth-century France)

that’s how she rolls. Many of our

professors roll that way.

POTATOTACOS

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THROWING A REGATTA

That Parodies the Whole Idea of Regattas and Yet Also Serves as an Exercise in

Community Building and DIY Engineering This would be the Head of the

Peacock, the lead-in to our annual

Spring Weekend (which features

live music, a dunk tank and a huge

Slip ’N Slide). Teams of students

build boats out of nearly nothing

and try to paddle across Peacock

Pond. They also wear freaky

costumes and paint themselves.

Literally unforgettable.

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ADMISSION We are an exceptional

liberal arts college with a supremely talented

and accessible faculty; inspiring students who

want to lead interesting, worthwhile lives; and

resources that let these people (to use the

technical term) shine like the sun. If that sounds

about right to you, please apply. We offer Early

Decision, Early Action and Regular Decision

programs, and you can, of course, learn more by

going to wheatoncollege.edu/admission/apply.

APPLICATION DEADLINES

FALL ADMISSION

First-Year Admission:Early Decision 1 November 1Early Action November 1 Early Decision 2 January 1Regular Decision January 1

Transfer Admission April 1

SPRING ADMISSIONFirst-Year Admission November 1Transfer Admission November 1

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS We love

them; they love us. We have more than 70 countries

represented on our campus by students who are

citizens of other countries and U.S. citizens who live

abroad. We think those diverse international perspectives

make our campus a more interesting place, in and out

of class. Specific information about admission and

financial aid requirements for international students

may be found at wheatoncollege.edu/admission.

VISITING What an excellent idea. We may

have mentioned a few hundred times that we’re close

to Boston and Providence—two cities with major

airports and public transportation that gets you to

campus. Come see us, meet our students, talk to

our professors and coaches, pledge yourself to an

a cappella group. This is how lives change.

TRANSFER STUDENTS If you think this is

where you belong, we can’t wait to get to know you.

In fact, we are ready to lend a helping “hand” to

make the transition to our warm and welcoming

campus. You can learn more about transferring to

Wheaton and our transfer credit evalution process at

wheatoncollege.edu/admission/transfer.

FINANCIAL AID Approximately 65 percent

of our students receive need-based financial aid. We

offer both need-based and merit-based aid, and quite

frankly, we’re pretty generous. To find out more, go to

wheatoncollege.edu/sfs.

2016–2017 COSTS

Tuition: $48,694

Room and meal plan: $12,500

Student activity fee: $318

Total: $61,512

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Chris Denorfia, Chicago Cubs outfielder

Nick Fradiani, American Idol Season 14 winner

Jean Fritz, Newbery Honor-winning author of children’s books

Trish Karter, founder of Dancing Deer Baking Co.

Catherine Keener, Academy Award—nominated actor

Sandra Ohrn Moose, Chair of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Ellen Moran, former White House Communications Director, and former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Dept. of Commerce

Thomas M. Sanderson, international security expert at CSIS

Sam Sisakhti, founder and CEO of UsTrendy.com

Lesley Stahl, broadcast journalist

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New York State Senate

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