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Members of the class of 2007 participated in the College's annual matriculation ceremony on August 29. Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Paris and Acting Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Lora Schilder were on hand to greet the first-year students and invite them to sign the historic College Register in Kirkland Cottage.

The Class of 2007 continued what has become a decade-long trend of increasingly stronger first-year classes enrolling at Hamilton. Only one in three applicants to the class was admitted (33 percent), making this group of first-year students the most selective class at Hamilton in more than 30 years. And when considering the percentages of multicultural students (15 percent) and international students (6 percent) in the first-year class, this fall marks the first time in the College's history that the entering class has been more than 20 percent non-white and non-American. The class is also diverse socioeconomically, with nearly six in 10 students applying for financial aid. Academically, the median SAT scores of enrolling students continued to climb, reaching 1314, which is 67 points higher than just three years ago. And the percent of first-year students who graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes jumped from 61 percent a year ago to 68 percent.

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