Junior Yinghan Ding was featured in The New York Times' Education Life section on Nov. 7 in an article titled “The China Boom.” Dean of Admission Monica Inzer was also quoted in The New York Times’ Education Life section on Nov. 7 as well as in the education blog The Choice on Nov. 4.
Property developer Stephen Steinberg ’66, a generous supporter of the College, is establishing a $1 million endowment to create the Steinberg-Lalli Scholarship Fund. Students with need who are accepted to Hamilton from the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, the public secondary school in Steinberg’s community, will be given first consideration for support from this fund. Steinberg’s objective is to support Hamilton’s need-blind initiative and encourage students from the Acton and Boxborough area to apply to the college. More ...
The speech delivered by Dean of Admission Monica Inzer at this year’s Convocation is featured on USA Today’s higher education blog and highlighted on the newspaper’s main education page. The blog entry, titled Breaking up is hard to do and written by the outlet’s higher education reporter, includes Inzer’s full parody of the dissolution of a relationship as she bid farewell to the class of 2014 in anticipation of a new relationship with the class of 2015. More ...
Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer was the focus of a feature article in the spring issue ofInside, the newsletter of the Posse Foundation. “Hamilton Dean Promotes Diversity and Access” praised the College’s need-blind policy, expanded partnership with the Posse program and initiation of the First in the Family project and noted Inzer’s involvement in each. More ...
Students accepted to Hamilton’s class of 2014 will get a chance to determine if the College is a good fit for them when they attend Accepted Student Open House on Monday, April 19. A full day of activities is planned for accepted students and their families in an effort to illustrate all aspects of a typical day at Hamilton. More ...
Dean of Admission Monica Inzer was joined by Audrey Smith, dean of enrollment at Smith College, and Kathleen Kingsbury, education correspondent for The Daily Beast, for a discussion of admission and financial aid issues on public radio station WNYC on March 22. Inzer was questioned about Hamilton’s decision to go need-blind and how the move would expand access to Hamilton. More ...
At a time when parents are beginning to question whether they can afford a college education for their children, Hamilton has announced that it will make admission decisions without considering an applicant’s ability to pay. The college already meets the full demonstrated need of every student it accepts and will continue to do so. The new policy at Hamilton, which is known as need-blind admission, is effective with the class currently being admitted for the fall of 2010. More ...
