<p>if one cannot make it to haverford - we are from chicago and very low in funds , as in unemployed right now, is there a way to get an interview in thru an alum? Are there any alums in chicago?</p>
<p>Is an interview an admission requirement, a recomended thing or neither?</p>
<p>also, I have heard good things about the math dept at haverford. does anyone know if there is an applied math option? is there any computer science option?</p>
<p>I would highly recommend that you contact Admissions and ask for a contact in Chicago. For Haverford, fit is so important so I think it would really benefit you to interview. I am sure that there are alums in your area. My son’s girlfriend is a math major (senior) and I think she would agree that the dept. is very strong. Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks, rev. I will contact admissions on this. Out of curiousity, since you happen to know someone who is a sr and a math major at H, do you what kind of post graduation plans she has going? Grad school? Teach? I guess the other bigger question would be: where do Haverford grads go after the graduate?</p>
<p>Haverford grads do many different things. My son is applying to law school for next year, his girlfriend who is the math major is seeking employment in the fashion industry in finanace. Another grad I know, just finished her grad degree in museum science at Brown after being a history major at Haverford. Our neighbor
who is a doctor did his undergraduate work at HC and the director of the theatre program at Kenyon College is a HC grad. I really do believe that Hc prepares you for just about anything you want to do and HC grads are a very successful group as a whole.</p>
<p>I was also curious how the LAC degree - of which HC is the classic example - might play in today’s rather unstable and uncertain economic climate. </p>
<p>How is the HC alumni network? extensive? regional? national? people in bigger places of influence?</p>
<p>I’m not one to usually cite myself, but I think this prior post from 2008 may address some of your issues…</p>
<p>What do alums tend to do?</p>
<p>I think the answer I can give, and I don’t mean to sound vague, is anything they put their minds to… I know too many examples of unexpected and rewarding paths friends/classmates have taken to state otherwise. Perhaps more specifically, clinical medicine, scientific research, education/academics, policy, legal, public service, and business are fairly popular. Often times, I’ve seen pretty creative combinations of these fields as well…</p>
<p>If you believe Hollywood, Haverford alums seem to be somehow involved with plots and conspiracies… Russell Crowe’s character in the upcoming movie “State of Play” and Dale Cooper, FBI detective in David Lynches’ “Twin Peaks.”
<a href=“http://news.haverford.edu/blogs/haverblog/tag/russell-crowe/[/url]”>http://news.haverford.edu/blogs/haverblog/tag/russell-crowe/</a></p>
<p>You can look through some of my past posts where I listed prominent alumni in different career areas along with references. It’s meant to show that HC, although small, has connections in most career areas. It ranges from the current deans of faculty at Princeton to Williams, the Duke faculty member charged to lead the committee to evaluate academics/athletics after the Duke rape scandal, the head of Johns Hopkins Biomedical research program, the head of UNESCO, my classmate who was one of 3 artists highlighted in a retrospective of emerging American artists at the Smithsonian, the economics editor for the Wall Street Journal, the Chief editor for Harvard Business Review, GM of the Arizona Diamondbacks and AGM of the Texas Rangers, Obama’s 1st judicial pick, the Director of Center for Constitutional Rights (Guantanamo litigation), the President of the Center for Individual Rights (sued U Mich Law School about affirmative action policy), Michael Jackson’s lawyer, Mayor of Las Vegas, Fox news/NPR commentator Juan Williams, actor Dan Dae Kim, author Nicholson Baker (he wrote some of the racy books Monica Lewinsky gave to Clinton), founding chairman of the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment district who was former Chair of Goldman Sachs… you get the pattern.</p>
<p>In addition, alumni in the last 10 years have included the chair of chemistry at MIT, chief editors for LA times and the NYT, dean of Stanford business School, Dean of Northwestern’s School or Journalism, President of Emory, CEO of NPR…</p>
<p>In terms of my area of interest (medicine), alumni include the 1st director of the Institutes of Medicine, the 1st director of the Harvard Framingham Heart Study (1st large prospective public health study conducted), the doctor who developed the test for Tay Sachs disease, the doctor who figured out Legionnaire’s disease, the Penn surgeon who developed intravenous nutrition back in the 1950’s, the doctor who started Harvard’s Department of Community Medicine… </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/06/16/daily11.html[/url]”>http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/06/16/daily11.html</a>
<a href=“http://www.followtheblackrabbit.com/index_main.htm[/url]”>http://www.followtheblackrabbit.com/index_main.htm</a>
<a href=“http://ccrjustice.org/about-us/staff-board/warren,-vincent[/url]”>http://ccrjustice.org/about-us/staff-board/warren,-vincent</a>
<a href=“http://www.renewnyc.com/AboutUs/board.asp[/url]”>http://www.renewnyc.com/AboutUs/board.asp</a></p>
<p>Bio of Dr. Jonathan Rhoads
<a href=“http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1422501/[/url]”>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1422501/</a></p>
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<p>More recently, within the last 3 years, a HC grad has been the only LAC representative 2/3 years to the Churchill Scholars program with other winners coming from major research universities.
[Winston</a> Churchill Foundation](<a href=“http://winstonchurchillfoundation.org/index.php?hide=1§ion=Scholars&type=php]Winston”>http://winstonchurchillfoundation.org/index.php?hide=1§ion=Scholars&type=php)</p>
<p>I am a senior math major at Bryn Mawr and I have interacted quite a bit with the math departments at Haverford and Penn. In my opinion, Haverford offers the best of all worlds!</p>
<p>Math at Haverford is demanding yet supportive. (In contrast, math at Bryn Mawr is supportive but lacks in rigor, while Penn has a “sink or swim” attitude.) I am particularly impressed by the close interactions between faculty and students at Haverford. Students and faculty regularly mingle in the math lounge and it’s not rare for professors to give impromptu lectures or try to solve logic puzzles with students. Professors are also happy to include motivated students in their research work, both during the summer and the academic year. Most professors have open door policies and are on a first-name basis with students. Overall, there’s an atmosphere of mutual collaboration. </p>
<p>If you decide to go to Haverford, I would highly encourage you to take advantage of the resources of the greater Philadelphia area. Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and Penn taken together offer a huge variety of advanced courses, and there are amazing colloquia, seminars and workshops throughout the area (don’t forget Princeton, Temple, Drexel, …).</p>