<p>The College of the Holy Cross will welcome to campus an exceptional group of first-year students on Aug. 27.</p>
<p>The 756 members of the Class of 2015 were selected from a record 7,353 applicants, an increase of about six percent over last year. Of the 7,353 applicants, 33 percent (or 2,436) were accepted, according to Ann McDermott, director of Admissions.</p>
<p>The new class is the most diverse in the Colleges history, with approximately 25 percent African-American, Latin American, Asian-American, and Native American heritage (ALANA) representation.</p>
<p>I’m very honored/excited to be one of these students!</p>
<p>Me too LilyEmery! 
I’m part of that 25% hahaha.
Yay Class of 2015, we made HC history :)</p>
<p>Lilyemery/Jenonymous - Can I ask what factors caused you to chose HC over other schools that you were accepted to? Lily, I read on another post that you had a full scholarship to Santa Clara. Thanks, Londondad</p>
<p>londondad: HC just felt right. There’s no other way to describe it. I went on a tour and the people were friendly, seemed happy, and I felt like I belonged there. At other schools I felt like an intruder on campus, but at HC it was just right. As for money my father is a prof at SCU (I was a Pres scholar there), so I was eligible for a Jesuit scholarship worth full tuition at all Jesuit schools except Georgetown and I got it at HC so money wasn’t an issue. HC was my first choice because everything seemed right: the campus vibe, size, and the fact that it was a LAC (big universities aren’t really my cup of tea).</p>
<p>i know we’ve said this before LilyEmery, but thank you for sharing this inspiration with me/us!</p>