Haverford College Viewbook

Have

room to explore / an open mind / an argument

/ an adventure / a point of view / a friend who’s nothing like you / a friend who’s just like you

/ integrity / a new point of view / a cheesesteak

/ a mentor / an audience / an impact / a blast

Have it

here.

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CHARACTER

Haverford attracts ambitious, intellectually curious, independent learners who value honesty, collaboration, integrity, compassion, and, above all, new ways of seeing and improving the world. No place trusts you more to forge your own academic path and contribute so meaningfully to the spirit and fabric of the campus community.

MIND

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The unparalleled collegiality between our students and faculty allows you to become a true scholar. Through rigorous academics and an emphasis on hands-on learning (at Haverford everyone does a senior thesis), you’ll engage with your academic work on profoundly deep levels. And in the end, you’ll connect your intellectual and personal growth with ways of changing the world.

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PLACE

As a Haverford student, the world is your campus. Haverford offers state-of-the-art facilities and gorgeous architecture, surrounded by an arboretum with a Nature Trail and a Duck Pond. We are strengthened by our friendly consortium neighbors (Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and the University of Pennsylvania) and the resources of Philadelphia, the sixth-largest city in the U.S. And through the Academic Centers and vast study-abroad options, Haverford students experience their education across the globe.

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PLAY

When it comes to academics and recreation, we are equally engaged. We participate in more than 145 student-run clubs, make a difference in student government, battle it out during Iron Chef Haverford, spin records at WHRC, and catch flicks during the biweekly film series. We also explore. Philly, a quick train ride away, is our backyard.

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FUTURE

Haverford’s singular way of preparing you to think and question, to act and assess—to own your learning—builds a framework you’ll use for the rest of your life. Here, with hands-on thesis research, close collegiality with faculty, strong connections via Academic Centers, and engaged support from the Center for Career and Professional Advising, you’ll have everything you need to become an ethical leader in the world.

Character

Haverford College provides a personal, practical, and challenging education to students from all over the world. Here, on a beautiful campus that came to life nearly two centuries ago, you’ll not only learn: You’ll learn how to learn better, and to do so in a context of ethical engagement with the wider world. You’ll thrive in an open-minded community rooted in trust, concern, and respect. You’ll experience independence, collegiality, and mentorship through distinctive bonds (through frameworks like the Honor Code and Customs). You’ll be transformed personally and intellectually, have more fun than you can imagine, and go out and change the world in your own way.

You’re not coming here to be part of this institution. You’re coming here to define what this institution is.

Acclimating to college life can be challenging. The yearlong Customs Program eases the transition through fun social activities and a serious level of peer support.

Trust and respect permeate every aspect of your life at Haverford.

The collaboration between you, your peers, and the Haverford faculty and staff fosters an empowering environment for everyone. What defines Haverford more than anything else is the trust we place in you to play the central role in your education and in the unfolding of the community experience. At Haverford, the freedom to shape your own path and influence the community and the culture is unparalleled. In and out of the classroom, there is palpable passion, excitement, and joy, knowing we share a commitment to our own individual growth and to working toward something much bigger than ourselves.

STUDENTS RUN

clubs & organizations

Philadelphia Quakers founded Haverford College in 1833. Although Haverford has no formal religious affiliation today, Quaker ideals strongly influence daily life on campus. Guiding principles that define a Haverford education include consensus-based decision-making and conflict resolution, openmindedness, critical thinking and questioning, integrity, respect for diverse ideas and backgrounds, and ethical engagement with the Haverford community and the greater world.

The Chesick Scholars Program

Of the many facets that distinguish Haverford, the Honor Code truly sets the College apart. Throughout your time on campus, the common bond created by the Honor Code will enable you to guide your academic affairs, debate the status quo, and support your peers as you all transform as learners and human beings. Here, you will take self-scheduled exams at home or in unproctored classrooms. You’re trusted to adhere to each instructor’s specific testing rules and regulations. Here, in dorms without RAs, you’re trusted to share living quarters entirely with your peers.

In the social realm of campus life, the Honor Code essentially emphasizes some of the things you probably learned in kindergarten: Treat others as you would wish to be treated, speak your mind, and allow others to be heard.

The Chesick Scholars Program provides a welcoming community and a suite of workshops, seminars, and throughout your time at Haverford, includes expanded faculty mentoring, monthly academic and social gatherings during the school year, and more.

The focus of all Chesick activities is to provide practical guidance for students to achieve their personal, academic, and professional goals as part of a supportive community of fellow students, staff, and faculty. All FLI students are automatically Chesick Scholars, but students can pick and choose to commit to any (or all) of the program’s offerings.

Haverford’s Quaker roots support socially responsible and intellectually curious students.

Our Honor Code creates an environment that encourages students to work collaboratively and develop into ethical leaders.

Exposure to a vast array of viewpoints and experiences enriches every day on campus.

Classmates and professors with a huge variety of opinions, backgrounds, and world views will make your time at Haverford a very personal and intellectually stimulating experience. We know that a diverse and inclusive community—one that embraces our differences—prepares students to make contributions to the world that are more creative and more profound.

98 of students live on campus

The Class of 2026 hails from

36 U.S. states &

27 countries

Bangladesh

Brazil

Canada

China

Egypt

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Hong Kong

India

Japan

Kenya

Mexico

Montenegro

Morocco

Nepal

New Zealand

Palestine

Singapore

South Korea

Switzerland

Syria

Turkey

United Kingdom

Ukraine

Vietnam

Zimbabwe

25%

31%

55%

STUDENTS OF COLOR

Because we strive to cultivate academic and intellectual discussions rather than deliver rote information, we keep our classes small. This way everyone’s voice can be heard, and everyone’s viewpoint can be respected, weighed, and debated. These intimate, seminar-style classes allow for big discussions, immense exploration, and undivided support, guidance, and attention.

A 9:1 student-faculty ratio means that your professors and academic advisors are almost always available. More than 40 percent of faculty live on-campus and many more live in the surrounding neighborhood, which makes it easy to meet and discuss course work and delve further into ideas.

In fact, some professors even elect to host class at home. But no matter where the class is held, you’ll seek and discover answers to challenging questions—and you’ll likely continue the conversation over lunch at the Dining Center, over pizza at the Coop, or during a game of Frisbee on Founders Green. In the end, as a full-fledged Ford, you’ll be equipped with analytical tools and practical experiences that help you sift through knowledge, make smart and efficient decisions, solve problems, and be an agent of change in your field.

96%

of students were in the top 10% of their high school class

TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT

1,472

Working so closely with faculty produces friendships, mentorships, and remarkably in-depth research.

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Haverford

students genuinely care about this place and the experience that every student has here. If there’s a barrier to progress, students will lift each other up and over the wall.

ALLISON WISE

Learn more about how you can shape your experience at Haverford: hav.to/sc

At Haverford, the balance of inclusivity and independence is apparent from the moment you set foot on campus.

Student-run and student-designed programs let you contribute your time and talents to the greater good.

Whether it’s about the food prepared in Haverford’s kitchens or the topics discussed and explored in your classrooms, you’ll work together with peers, faculty, and staff to serve on administrative committees and challenge one another to drive the campus forward.

In fact, every major decision about running the College—including budgets, hiring, and more— is made with the input of students like you.

It all begins with Customs, Haverford’s student-run orientation program, which marks the start of your college life.

Customs Week officially takes place the week prior to the start of classes, but the Customs Program actually stretches throughout your first year. You’ll be greeted by sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are here during Customs Week to help you get your footing. But upperclass students will also live on your hall and help answer questions and connect you with support networks all over campus.

Upperclass students have always fought for these cherished positions, and they’ll make sure you have and know everything you need to make your transition to college life as smooth as possible.

There are more than 70 upperclass students to support nearly 400 first-year students. These student liaisons want to make your acclimation as easy and fun as possible. You can seek their advice when figuring out your course schedule, choosing extracurriculars, and charting your path during your first year.

Becoming an agent of change in your field and all facets of your life demands ambition, dedication, and follow-through. But it also calls for hard-earned experience and the proper tools and training to set your ideas and plans in motion.

The Student Engagement Funding Committee offers $30,000 per semester that serves as an innovation incubator for student events. Events are proposed by individuals or by student clubs and organizations. The only criterion is that all events must be open to the whole campus community.

Composed of Students’ Council members and Dean’s Office staff, the Committee offers advising and financial backing, as you take the lead in planning and executing your event.

Whether you’re planning a campus-wide celebration, a cultural experience, or an educational lecture or workshop, the Student Engagement Funding program will give you an opportunity to bring your ideas to life for the campus community and increase your experience with organizing and executing your vision.

During Plenary, which happens twice every school year, you’ll gather with peers to raise, discuss, and debate campus issues. The fall gathering focuses on ratifying the Students’ Constitution, while spring centers on approving the Honor Code. For Plenary to occur, a quorum must be reached, meaning that at least two-thirds of the student body must be in attendance. For a resolution to pass, two-thirds of the attending students must consent. The responsibility of carrying out and upholding changes or initiatives falls to the Students’ Council.

Members of ETHOS, Haverford’s ethical-foodadvocacy student group, presented a resolution to shift the school’s Dining Services budget for “food that is ethical, local, ecologically sound, or humane” from 8% to 20% by the year 2020. It was passed by an overwhelming majority, and the resolution’s terms were fully realized 10 months ahead of schedule.

Mind

As you perform real-world research and immerse yourself in our rigorous curriculum, you’ll work closely with professors who double as colleagues and mentors. This collaborative spirit cultivates independent thinking and fosters the pursuit and creation of knowledge—leading you to examine issues and discover answers to questions you didn’t know existed.

At Haverford and throughout the process of my thesis, I definitely grew the creative, imaginative parts of my person that I want to keep growing.

of Your education at Haverford is a partnership between you, your peers, and your professors—leaders you shape your distinct intellectual path.

Academic Centers will deeply impact your scholarly trajectory.

Haverford’s three Academic Centers provide opportunities for students and faculty to enrich their scholarship beyond the classroom. In addition to hosting influential speakers, events, and symposia, the Centers are your primary funding source for internships and externships.

As grant-making entities to some 150 students per year, the Centers open channels across all disciplines, uniting you with faculty to test hypotheses in the arts, science, and social sciences. With global reach, each Center offers comprehensive resources and tools, along with support to help you design your own high-level scholarship and make connections with experts and organizations around the world who are doing transformative work.

Center for Peace and Global Citizenship

The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship (CPGC) embodies Haverford’s commitment to the study and promotion of social justice across all academic disciplines.

Through the CPGC, you can develop project proposals to attend conferences, do deeper senior thesis research, or influence campus conversations by bringing speakers or symposia to campus. And the summer internship program allows students to integrate scholarly learning with practical experience, sending students across the globe on self-designed projects.

60 self-designed international and domestic internships, including:

African Family Health Organization (Philadelphia, PA)

Ahlam Houssein ’24

Virtual Global and Public Health in Ghana (San Francisco, CA)

Briana Boachie ’24

Understanding Depression Through Societal Structure (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)

Tsenguun Chinzorig ’23

Migration Encounters (Mexico City, Mexico)

Natalia Barber ’23

Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center

The heart of natural science research at Haverford, the 188,000-square-foot Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center (KINSC) houses the Departments of Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology. But it’s more than just a building: The KINSC is one of Haverford’s three Academic Centers as well.

The Center catalyzes and facilitates programs that maintain Haverford’s position at the leading edge of academic excellence in the sciences. Here, the faculty, staff, and students share instruments, methodologies, and expertise across disciplines in collaborative research and investigation. From NMR machines and electron microscopes to ultracentrifuges and telescopes, the KINSC houses everything you need to develop as a scientist.

The KINSC also provides stipends to both students and faculty for summer research and scholarship, including projects abroad. Other opportunities include funding for students to attend conferences and workshops, and sponsorships for seminars and scholarly projects, many of which involve students and faculty from multiple departments.

Each fall, the Center hosts a research symposium that showcases student work from Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and other area colleges. Throughout the year, speakers from around the world also come to share their findings, insights, and experiences.

John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities

The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities (HCAH) connects our campus with the writers, artists, performers, thinkers, activists, and innovators of today and generations past. Located in the Visual Culture, Arts + Media (VCAM) facility, with exhibition spaces that double as active classrooms, diverse art and ideas drawn from multiple disciplines will challenge and enlighten the way you see the world.

As a researcher in the humanities, you have multiple opportunities to work with the HCAH, which provides stipends, summer research assistantships, and internships. The HCAH also provides funding to support original student art projects, exhibitions, and theater performances.

The Hurford Center sponsors reading groups, so you can study literary texts outside the formal classroom environment. It also funds small, not-forcredit, student-run seminars on myriad creative, boundary-stretching topics such as “Technologies of Control: Surveillance and Socialization in Total Institutions and Broader Society,” and “The Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Street Art, and a New Organic Urban Architecture.”

The HCAH works with the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery—a classroom, workshop, laboratory, and exhibition space all in one—to partner with faculty, students, and visiting curators to create works that connect curricular interests and scholarship with contemporary artistic practice.

12- and 16-inch telescopes used by students and the public to study the stars and explore the heavens.

RECEIVE UP TO CENTERS

$10,000

Recent Exhibits

Let’s Get Free: The Transformative Art and Activism of the People’s Paper Co-op

Curated by Raquel de Anda, Sharita Towne, and Daniel Tucker

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A participatory exhibition entitled: Currently

Organized by artist Mark Menjívar

Native America: In Translation

Curated by artist Wendy Red Star

world begins with a world of support.

When it comes to making the most of college, some students set themselves on specific careers from the jump, while others take paths they’d never dreamed of. No matter which camp you’re in, when you settle into life at Haverford, we’re here to always make it easy to ask questions, get answers, focus on the tasks at hand, take chances, and evolve as a student and citizen of the world.

In an academic year, the OAR schedules:

800 ACADEMIC

and

4,000 hours of peer

First-years and sophomores make

77% of all TUTORING APPOINTMENTS

The OAR is committed to strengthening student learning, persistence, and scholarship, and advancing the teaching and learning mission of the College. We seek to be a center where knowledge is generated for transformative purposes, both at individual and institutional levels.

The rigor of Haverford presents new demands and expectations on how you learn from intentionally designed, challenging forms of instruction; therefore, academic success at Haverford requires adoption, acquisition, and/or adjustment of new habits, skills, and practices to help you reach your goals. The OAR is an unlimited (free) resource available anytime from Customs to Commencement, to help you—or your class, team, or peer group—reflect, plan, and strategize on how to make your academic journey at Haverford more meaningful and impactful.

We achieve this through academic support structures at the professional and peer levels. We work closely with faculty to provide peer-led, content-level learning support for all

introductory STEM and language courses. The ultimate goal is to provide you with the ability to master, outside the classroom, the skills and competencies necessary to thrive academically in your courses.

We also provide peer and professional academic coaching. Coaching is a collaborative and empowering resource for any student who wants to be a better learner, a lifelong endeavor, by helping you manage your time, manage large projects, learn scholarly reading practices, and, but not limited, to developing disciplinary-specific ways of knowing and doing.

The OAR recognizes that every Haverford student has a unique story, and we lean into your story to identify your strengths to help you create goals, reflect on progress, and overcome challenges (which are normal for growth). We believe all students can be successful at Haverford, however you define success; we’re here to walk with you every step of the way, during any part of your journey.

When it really comes down to it, everyone’s a “creative.”

With exceptional collections, rare titles, and art and artifacts, along with the latest research tools, our library system exists and evolves to develop your academic excellence and personal growth through a liberal arts education.

The Libraries

Haverford’s main library, Lutnick, serves a campus that also includes four smaller specialized libraries: the Astronomy Library, the Gilbert F. White Science Library, the Music Library, and the Cricket Library, which documents the intertwined history of the sport and Haverford College itself. Inside Lutnick Library, you’ll have access to more than half a million volumes in the form of printed books, microfilm, photographs, diaries, letters, sound and video recordings, electronic publications, and miscellaneous ephemera. In addition, a catalog system that connects to libraries at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore gives you access to 2.5 million additional volumes. The recently renovated library building features beautiful light-filled spaces, a new café, classrooms, a screening room, galleries, a conservation lab, and more.

The main library houses:

500,000 TITLES

2 COPIES The Quadrupeds of North America

1st editions of works by

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CAMPUS GALLERIES AND EXHIBITION SPACES

The Visual Culture Arts + Media (VCAM) facility provides 3-D printing, prototyping, fabrication, and other

digital media-making, curatorial experimentation, and arts exhibition design. It is also home to the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities.

45+

arts-related clubs, including Lighted Fools, a sketch comedy and improv troupe

Haverford College

Our libraries are sanctuaries for studying and buzzing hives of research.

I’ve been in multiple classes now where I feel like my life was actually changed —

I learned things of fundamental personal importance, and the professor was not only willing to talk me through it, they were invested in my learning and my process even after the semester was over.

MILES KNECHT

Class of 2019

Knecht has taken a few classes featured in the “Cool Classes” series, such as “John Brown’s Body,” an English course that uses the spectacular life and death of John Brown to examine issues such as the place of violence in the cause of liberty, the shifting terrain of civil disobedience and terrorism, and the roles of race and gender in the construction of emancipatory rhetoric.

At Haverford, you’re a scholar in your own right.

Every student completes a senior thesis here. As the culmination of your academic experience, this is your opportunity to do original, independent research in partnership with faculty members, at levels usually reserved for graduate students.

We’re one of very few institutions in the U.S. that include such a challenging research project as part of every student’s academic program. As you work toward proving your hypothesis, you’ll use state-of-the-art tools and resources and tap into the worldwide Haverford network.

In the end, you’ll understand (at a level unfamiliar to the great majority of traditional college graduates) what it takes to create knowledge and seek answers to challenging questions. And it’s quite possible that you’ll graduate having designed and completed a project that could become the foundation for future research fellowships, career paths, or lifelong pursuits.

You’ll have assistance beyond your faculty mentor. At the Office of Academic Resources (OAR), our libraries, and our Academic Centers, all manner of resources, coaches, guides, and counselors await to help you bring your senior thesis to life.

Recent Senior Theses

Optimizing MLB Free Agency With the Genetic Algorithm

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Subject to Reform: Race, Caste, and the Gendered Governance of Female Sexuality in Late Colonial India (1887–1929)

— Investigating the Link Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Sleep Deprivation

— Examining the Failure to Care: Shaming as a Public Health Strategy During and Beyond the Coronavirus Pandemic

— Investigating the Role of Helix III Mutation in Acyl Carrier Protein Conformational Dynamics and Protein Binding in Type II Fatty Acid Biosynthesis

95 Fulbright SCHOLARS

Nobel Prize winners

5MacArthur Fellows

Thanks to a partnership between the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, students from Kristen Whalen’s “Advanced Topics in Biology of Marine Life” class spent a week over winter break exploring tropical coral ecosystems in Roatán, Honduras. Students went snorkeling twice per day to explore coral diversity and identify fish, turtles, invertebrates, and algae on the second largest coral reef on Earth, known as the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.

31 GOLDWATER SCHOLARS

71 Watson FELLOWS

Your senior thesis can launch your career.

George P. Smith ’63 is the fourth Haverford alumnus to win the Nobel Prize. A biology major while at Haverford, he credits his thesis advisor with introducing him to molecular immunology which shaped his early career. Smith was honored with the Nobel in Chemistry for his work developing phage display, which uses bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacteria – to evolve new proteins. This “elegant method” (as the Nobel officials described it) eventually contributed to new drugs and antibodies that treat metastatic cancer, autoimmune diseases, and more.

Students work closely with their mentors and often find them early in their studies. Opportunities for research are available as early as your first year at Haverford.

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Discover your passion, declare your major, make your mark.

Choosing a major is a milestone decision, but it shouldn’t be so weighty that it stops you in your tracks. Most students don’t know exactly what discipline to zero in on until they start taking classes, talk with their peers and professors, and understand the subjects and ideas that inspire them a little more clearly.

Here, our closely knit campus, outgoing student body, connected faculty, and great number of classes make it easier to explore your options.

734 courses at Haverford

Thanks to collaboration between the students, faculty, and staff within the Tri-College Consortium, the depth and breadth of your Haverford education are second to none.

And thanks to significant social interaction among all the schools of the Consortium, you’ll be exposed to an even wider variety of experiences, wisdom, and points of view—whatever major you choose.

2,200

As a Haverford student, you can choose from more than classes

offered by the schools in the Tri-College Consortium: Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore.

61% of students have at least one MINOR or CONCENTRATION

People often assume that research is this solitary practice, but I work with four or five students each year, and we’re really actively collaborating every day.

SUZANNE

Haverford works with five institutions to offer accelerated-degree partnership programs, so you can get a head start on your master’s degree.

Place

Haverford’s location offers the best of all worlds: a serene yet dynamic campus, close proximity to our extraordinary consortium partners, and a site nestled within one of America’s greatest metropolitan areas. All of this dramatically increases the scope of your education without sacrificing the quintessential small-college experience. Here, you’ll encounter a vast array of events and programming, along with world-class resources, culture, and history; you’ll also have life-changing, hands-on learning experiences throughout the region and the world. As a Haverford student, you will truly engage with the world around you—near and far.

I’m from a small town, so the opportunity to hitch a ride on a local train and be right in the thick of things is something I really appreciate.

The city of Philadelphia dramatically expands the size of our campus and deepens the impact of your college experience.

Explore a historic region, forge your future, and have a lot of fun along the way.

Our beautiful arboretum campus provides an extraordinary setting for living and learning together, but in addition to the community you’re creating here, you have access to a major city, just eight miles away, that can be used as a playground for you to develop your interests and professional aspirations. Students use Philadelphia as a laboratory to explore urban landscapes, policy, education, history, art, and more with their professors and classmates, or as a site of professional training, interning at one of the city’s Fortune 500 companies or major cultural institutions. Having a vibrant cultural epicenter so close by creates incredible opportunities to apply what you learn in your classrooms and labs, and draw inspiration in the form of films, music, art, sports, and nature.

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Haverford’s reach extends throughout the region, country, and world. With funding from our Academic Centers and other resources, you can spend semesters and summers abroad or engage in shorter trips to conduct research. Travel funding is available for attending professional conferences, taking part in symposia, working off campus in conjunction with professors, and doing national and international internships and externships.

These kinds of opportunities expose you to information, resources, facilities, and experiences that will deepen your scholarly work, inspire you as you complete your senior thesis, and profoundly expand your world.

Philadelphia is as rich with arts and cultural resources as it is with volunteer,

internship, and job opportunities

World Heritage City

in the U.S.

(cited for its blend of rich history and contemporary culture)

67 HISTORIC LANDMARKS

more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We at the College recognize that we live and work on Lenape land, and pay respect and honor to the caretakers of inhabitants until now, and into the future.

PHILADELPHIA

• Population: 1,603,797

• Founded: 1682, by Quaker leader William Penn

• Birthplace of American independence

• 6th-largest city in the U.S.

The vibrant urban region all around Haverford’s campus is as rich with arts and cultural resources as it is with service and employment opportunities. As a Ford, you’re less than 30 minutes by train to Center City Philadelphia, where you can access all of the opportunities and resources of a huge metropolis.

Throughout the school year and summer, you can enrich your education (and daily life) with forays throughout Philadelphia and the surrounding neighborhoods to explore, take classes through the Tri-College Consortium, do internships, shadow mentors, and work.

Haverford—in a neighborhood that’s loaded with great shops, cafés, and restaurants—is halfway between Ardmore and Bryn Mawr.

Haverford is located on the Main Line, a regional rail line and series of communities with roots in William Penn’s day. All it takes is a five-minute walk from campus, and you’re on the train and on your way to Philadelphia. Public buses and trolleys are also available to transport you hassle-free to Philly for research or internship and volunteer work— or to one of the city’s six other universities.

In the Ardmore neighborhood, you’ll find Suburban Square, an outdoor mall with both big-name brands and little boutiques. If you’re hungry there are tons of restaurants to choose from, or if you want to whip something up back at your campus apartment, you can pick up provisions at Trader Joe’s or the Ardmore Farmers’ Market. In Bryn Mawr, see an indie film at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute and peruse the racks at Showcase Comics and Games. Hungry? Great Mexican, Indian, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Italian food awaits you.

Studying abroad in London was one of my major highlights of college. Not only was I able to take courses not offered at Haverford, but also it motivated my joint thesis in computer science and math. I walked hundreds of miles, took thousands of pictures, and experienced countless memories—

I traveled places, got lost, and found myself!

About 32 percent of our students spend a semester or more learning outside the United States.

This will change your life.

Studying abroad expands your world by instilling in you an immeasurable sense of confidence. Take it from these Fords, who immersed themselves in the classrooms and cultures of countries previously foreign to them.

32% of our students STUDY ABROAD

MORE THAN 60 STUDYABROAD PROGRAMS

I adventured, restored, recentered myself, and made lifelong friends. The experiential learning component of my program cemented my desire to study and work in climate change and renewable energy, and the people I met opened my horizons to new ways of engaging with that work.

My study abroad experience in Iceland taught me so much more than I could’ve imagined.

not only because the Irish are perhaps the most welcoming, boisterous folks to walk the earth, but because, through a rollercoaster of learning experiences (both in the classroom and on the streets reminded me that I am capable of working through challenges, and at the same time, it showed me that I can create great things for myself.

When reflecting on my time in Ireland, the feeling that comes to mind is joy—

CALAIS IRWIN ’23 Political Science major,

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A vivid sense of community is the heart of life at Haverford. It starts during the first week of Customs, and deepens naturally as your friendships and mentorships develop over the years. Of course, these bonds are built inside our classrooms, labs, and studios, and they grow even stronger on the outside. When we aren’t investigating or creating knowledge, we’re influencing student government, letting off steam on the playing fields, and sharing meals in our cafés. Every week, every weekend, there’s a chance to do something you love or something brand new.

We guarantee you’ll have a lot of fun.

Fords put as much energy, enthusiasm, and thought into their recreation as they do their studies. Here, you have tons of opportunities to play, have fun, and explore.

Living alongside so many of our peers, you’ll find it’s easy to make friends, build on shared interests, and get the most from an existing club or the one you start. And living near one of America’s greatest cities vastly increases your options for making the most of your undergraduate years.

Haverford hosts a huge array of events on campus, and the best part? All events are free to students. That includes concerts, performances, lectures, author events, film premieres, and more!

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There’s always something to do, see, and hear on campus, thanks to Students’ Council and the Student Activities Office. These two organizations distribute half a million dollars to fund cool on-campus events such as concerts by national bands, board game nights, and food truck fests, plus Philly field trips and landmark tours.

And beyond that, our close consortium ties to Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore grant you access to everything on their entertainment and recreational dockets as well.

If flowers are blooming and the mercury’s rising, that means it’s Haverfest time. The spring tradition always draws great DJs and bands to Founders Green, where students throughout the consortium turn the arboretum from calm to clamorous.

Haverford’s WHRC, one of the world’s first college radio stations, began broadcasting in 1923. Today, the web-based audio collective provides an eclectic soundtrack for Fords and listeners around the world. Tune in to hear (or post) enlightening record reviews, catch community news, and express yourself through podcasts, music shows, and multimedia projects.

When it comes to the official start of spring, some people consult calendars and stars, while others wait for shadows cast by a certain Keystone State groundhog. At Haverford, the season doesn’t officially arrive until campus awakens one morning to a cheery field of colorful, spinning pinwheels on Founders Green. This is Pinwheel Day—our annual celebration of warmer weather’s return.

Join the club— or start your own.

As a Ford, in addition to serving on faculty hiring committees, managing the student activities budget, and scheduling your own exams, you can help guide any of the more than 145 campus clubs and organizations.

You’re sure to find yourself integrating and applying what you experience and learn throughout your undergraduate life and beyond.

145 clubs and organizations

Here’s a sampling:

Best Buddies

Black Student League

Charcuterie Union

Diabesties

Federation United Concert Series

Fiber Arts

Haverford Outdoors Club

Haverford Robotics

Haverford Quiz Bowl Team

Literary House

Nerd House

The Outskirts

Sound Machine

Street Outreach

Women in STEM

Throughout the history of Haverford, students have founded many a club that has contributed greatly to the singular vibe and culture of campus.

But since 1993, there’s been just one student-run group that’s helped Fords bond through Iron Chef-style cooking competitions, traditions anchored by comfort food, and five-star Philly field trips. That club is Fords Against Boredom, better known as FAB ... because it is.

Look to FAB for Quizzo and Casino Nights and Ben & Jerry’s Bingo, plus finals week cheesesteak runs and Midnight Breakfast (when deans and the President serve students tater tots and bacon).

All year, the group ensures that there’s always something fun and free for everyone to do on campus—and in Philadelphia, where FAB outings include visits to museums, concerts, theaters, and sporting events.

FAB was one of the first things I joined on campus, and it’s always been a fun time! Casino Night, Love Shack, and movie trips are my super faves, but all the FAB trips are amazing.

SEBASTIAN DILONES ‘18

And don’t forget about Philly ...

The HaverTicket is your means to witnessing and getting involved in all sorts of regional you can secure HaverTickets (subsidized travel tickets, tokens, and passes) to use SEPTA, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.

Free Philly Fare

The Schuylkill River Trail and Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk

Following the path of the Schuylkill River are more than 60 miles of trails to walk, run, and bicycle. The Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk is the place to catch cool nighttime views of the downtown skyline.

9th Street Italian Market

While a slice at Lorenzo’s, a cannoli at Sarcone’s or a cheesesteak at Pat’s or Geno’s will set you back a few bucks, a walk up and down the historic curbside market hasn’t cost a thing since the place got going in the late 1800s.

Independence National Historical Park

Pay homage to the birthplace of American democracy inside America’s most historic square mile.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

spoken when you’re on a college student’s budget. Be there on Friday evenings or the First Sunday of every month to take in a masterwork for nothing (or next to it).

Philadelphia Orchestra’s Free College Concert Night

Every year, a free concert just for college students kicks off The Philadelphia Orchestra’s eZseatU program, which brings thousands of students to Verizon Hall to experience the famous Philadelphia Sound.

Have fun and play games

Around the Boardwalk at Spruce Street Harbor, there are tons of games to play Ping-Pong tables and corn hole games are available to play for free at Love Park all year around!

Tunes and Reads

Philadelphia is jammed with A-plus bookshops and record stores. Here are two with free, second-to-none ambiance: Brickbat Books (Fabric Row at 4th and South) and Long in the Tooth Records (20th and Sansom).

PHILLY AMERICAN FIRSTS

First Library

First Hospital

First Medical School

First Capital

First Zoo

First Stock Exchange

First Business School

Philly’s 6

PRO TEAMS

WHAT TO DO NEXT?

• NHL Flyers

• NBA 76ers

• MLB Phillies

• NFL Eagles

• MLS Union

• NLL Wings

Ice-skate at Penn’s Landing or rollerskate at City Hall. Rock out at the Fillmore. Take in a special exhibit at the Museum of Art. Track the puck at a Flyers game. Shop the Punk Rock Flea Market.

Train times from Philly to 1.5 hours

2 hours D.C.

FIRST-YEAR AND UPPER-CLASS STUDENT RESIDENCES

As for the most important part of residence hall life—decorating your room and the hall itself— well, we leave it entirely up to you. For inspiration, check out the dorm tours in our Instagram reels.

Now, this is living.

As a first-year Ford, you’ll live with your Customs Group of 8 to 16 people in one of four safe, comfortable, and environmentally friendly first-year residences.

UPPER-CLASS STUDENT RESIDENCES

SPECIAL-INTEREST HOUSES (UPPER-CLASS STUDENTS)

Each clean and spacious coed residence offers a wide variety of accommodations, including double and single rooms, suites (groupings of single rooms that share a lounge), and apartmentstyle housing with kitchens and private bathrooms. Also, each building has its own distinct vibe, history, and environment. Through housing questionnaires, we’ll pair you with the place that best suits your disposition, interests, needs, tastes, and goals.

Food brings you together with friends and faculty.

Whether at a main meal, late-night study break, or spur-of-the-moment meetup, you’ll find delicious, healthy, sustainable food to fuel your interactions.

In the Dining Center, a.k.a. the DC, there are always fantastic vegetarian options, plus fresh fruits and vegetables, made-from-scratch desserts, and locally sourced dairy and bread (local produce and meat, too, when available). There’s a vegan bar and a gluten-free room, as well as specialty stations like the omelet bar, pasta bar, and stir-fry station. And the DC is consistently adding “menu enhancers” like “Build Your Own Banh Mi” and “Milkshake Mania.”

Haverford’s student-run club and farm, Haverfarm, ensures that your plate is rounded out with sustainable sustenance that’s traveled only a few yards from the field to your table. Spread among four plots around campus, HaverFarm student-workers deliver carrots, rhubarb, and other just-picked produce to the DC every week (when in season, naturally).

At the Coop, which also benefits from Haverfarm’s bounty, you can dig into a variety of hot and cold lunch items: pizza, salads, soups, sandwiches, beverages, yogurt, snacks, and desserts. For great hot and cold coffee drinks, milkshakes, and smoothies, hit the Coop’s Barista’s Nook.

Every now and then, of course, you’ll want to go “off menu” and seek out the stuff you can’t get on campus. There are plenty of restaurants nearby, and most of them deliver to campus, so whatever you’re craving isn’t far away.

To me, receiving a quality education isn’t solely dependent on academic courses, and I wanted to make the most of my collegiate experience.

JESSE TURKSON

For students like Jesse Turkson, who majored in economics, participated in the Black Students League, and started for the basketball team, Haverford’s balanced approach to learning and extracurriculars, as well as the sense of community in and out of the classroom, was the

At Haverford, everyone’s in the game.

Ever since campus planner William Carvill organized the first cricket squad at Haverford in 1834, athletics have played an essential role at Haverford.

Whether you’re an elite varsity runner competing in a conference championship or a flag football enthusiast darting around Cope Field, exercising the body and mind go hand-in-hand at Haverford. Athletics allows students to grow and learn, express creativity and leadership, and strive for excellence just as they do in the classroom, in the laboratory, or on stage.

At Haverford, you can compete and challenge yourself at the highest level without sacrificing your identity as a student, scholar, and full community member.

ALL-AMERICANS 300+

WE FIELD THE ONLY

varsity cricket team IN AMERICA

HAVERFORD’S ALL-STAR ROLL CALL RUNS THE GAMUT

(cross-country team captain)

(soccer standout)

(basketball league MVP)

Haverford’s baseball presence?

Big league: hav.to/mlb

Our workout facilities are equipped with all of the tools and resources you need to build stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit—no matter your sport or discipline.

53% of our students are on varsity or club teams

Swan Field

400-meter track Alumni Cross Country Course

Future

The opportunity to manage your own learning, collaborate with faculty, and connect knowledge across disciplines builds a framework that you’ll use forever. Whether you’re destined for graduate or medical school, entrepreneurship or the arts, the business or banking realms, or elsewhere in the world at large, you’ll always find yourself applying the unique academic and social skills you cultivate at Haverford. Here’s how Haverford graduates are enriching daily life, working toward grand cures for society’s ills, and, in general, improving the world.

RHEA CHANDRAN

Class of 2023

For me, Haverford has been a perfect fit because of its commitment to student agency, and to developing these relationships between students and professors that I think are pretty unique to this college.

One of four Fords awarded the prestigious Fulbright scholarship in 2023, history major Rhea Chandran will use the nine-month grant to build upon her senior thesis research, which delved into the history of the prostitution industry in India, where it is rooted in the caste system of the country’s pre-colonial past. With funding from the history department, Chandran carried out archival research for her thesis in in London; the Fulbright facilitates an expansion of that research to include archives in India, with a focus on modern women.

The end is just the beginning of something amazing.

A Haverford education carries clout worldwide. Here’s how recent alumni are applying their skills, experience, and wisdom to life beyond campus.

TSION SYOUM ’21

Major: Environmental Studies

Graduate Study: Syoum won a Fulbright to study water policy in Uganda. She will be based at Makerere University, researching how local livelihoods around the Lake Victoria basin must be both adaptive and resilient in light of hydro-climatic disasters.

Her Haverford: As a high school student, Syoum started a sources of water for rural communities in Eritrea. While at Haverford, Syoum worked as a legislative intern for Senator Dianne Feinstein, a judicial intern in the U.S. court system, and in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s

intern for the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship.

MAURICE RIPPEL ’19

Majors: English and Religion

Graduate Study: Rippel is enrolled in a joint Ph.D. program in African American studies and anthropology at Yale.

His Haverford: Rippel won a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which funds independent exploration and international travel. He used the $30,000 award to travel to Canada, the U.K., Italy, Nigeria, South Africa, and Colombia to explore local communities through their barbershops. While at Haverford, Rippel worked as a Policy Intern at the Philadelphia Co-President of the Students’ Council. He was a Newman Civic Engagement Fellow, a MellonMays Undergraduate Fellow, and a Chesick Scholar.

CATHY ZHU ’23

Majors: Anthropology and Psychology

Minor: Asian American Studies

Fellowship Program: As a Coro Fellow, Zhu will spend a year honing her leadership skills across diverse sectors, through rotating placements in and business settings.

Her Haverford: As a passionate advocate for Asian communities, experience during her time at Haverford. The Coro program seemed like “a great idea ... to gain exposure to other areas” as she prepares for future advocacy work on behalf of Asian students and immigrants. “As a daughter of Chinese working-class immigrants, I identify with those communities,” says Zhu. “So, for me...it’s important to give back and help others too.”

IVAN QUEZADA TAVERAS ‘22

Major: Economics

Minor: Africana Studies

Job: Taveras is an associate consultant at IBM, working in the multinational technology corporation. Additionally, he recently launched his own clothing line, Ivy Dé Santi.

His Haverford: Taveras credits his experience in Haverford’s Whitehead Internship Program with developing his business and consulting skills prior to graduation. A broad range of coursework, together with great friends and activities like the Rugby and Chess clubs, provided what he describes as an environment of physical, intellectual, and social health at Haverford. His liberal arts education, he found, positioned him well not only for the job market, but also to pursue bigger-picture goals. About launching Ivy Dé Santi, he says, “I combined my passion and love for fashion and designing with my skills in business and entrepreneurship to undertake this ambitious project.”

KOFI KWAKWA ’19

Major: International Studies

Minor: History

Job: Kwakwa is an Account Manager for KiCK Global, a Barcelona-based marketing and advertising agency.

His Haverford: Kwakwa started at KiCK as a copywriting and PR intern. While at Haverford, he worked as a Teaching Assistant in the French Department, and he honed his copywriting skills as a staff writer for The Haverford Clerk . He played varsity basketball for two years, and served as an NCAA Men’s and Women’s varsity soccer commentator. After graduation, Kwakwa interned at the U.N. International Organization for Migration in his hometown of Geneva, Switzerland.

a beautiful sound.

Founders Bell rings for all the special occasions on campus, including the most memorable one: Commencement. As a senior, you’ll have truly earned the right to leave your mark on the bell— a modern-day tradition.

GRACE COBERLY ’21

Majors: Music and Linguistics

Job: As a music teacher at Shrewsbury Montessori School in Shrewsbury, MA, Coberly teaches music theory, music appreciation, and ukele to about 135 students in grades pre-K to 6. They also direct a student choir.

Their Haverford: Growing up in a musical family, Coberly has always found music to be key to community. As a double major, they wrote two theses, each exploring, in different ways, the socializing potential of music for children. They also immersed themselves in Bi-Co music opportunities, leading the a cappella group the Mainliners and working as a musical assistant for the Bi-Co Chamber Singers.

“All I know is that I want to teach music, and that I want to teach it well,” they say, “in a way that inspires and empowers my students to take music into their own hands.”

We’ll help you connect your talents and skills with people who need them most.

Haverford’s employer networks, postgraduate connections, easy-to-access resources, and hands-on guidance help our students and alumni discover and make their next moves.

Whether you’re on a direct path to a job, a fellowship, or graduate, medical, or law school, you can tap into a huge array of support services all along the way.

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The CCPA, in Stokes Hall, helps you explore and prepare for meaningful jobs, careers, and postgraduate experiences. Here, you can hone your resumé and cover letter skills, do mock interviews, research jobs, connect with employers, and secure internships and externships. The CCPA also regularly invites Fords from all fields and walks of life to share their experiences, stories, advice, and insight with undergrads.

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ADVISING CONSULTATIONS

635 REVIEWS

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Internships and externships can provide invaluable resources, contacts, insights, and reflections to move you forward.

As an intern, you can perform actual work and learn on the job. As an extern, you can shadow a sponsor in a professional environment. Through our Extern Program, students can job shadow or have an informational interview with an alumna/us during winter or spring break.

The College has numerous funding sources to help support students to take full advantage of summer opportunities. Students can apply for a variety of College grants for summer internship funding.

Fellowships

Work with our fellowship advisor in CCPA to apply for oncein-a-lifetime chances to research, teach abroad, or receive funding for graduate school.

Alumni Resources

Through expert guidance and assistance at the CCPA, Haverford alumni—for life—can research fields of employment, improve resumés and cover letters, and rehearse for job interviews. You can also network by searching alumni by industry, employer, location, and job title.

160+ College-sponsored internships per year

Lifelong Connections Haverford Connect

Thousands of Haverford alumni are eager to help you make your next move. Through Haverford Connect, our alumni directory and professional networking platform, 3400+ alumni have volunteered to offer career support, advice, and guidance. Through the system, you can:

• Explore and connect with the community

• Find jobs and internship opportunities posted by alumni

• Access resources

• Participate in the Extern Program

15,000+

NETWORK OF ALUMNI

The Whitehead Internship Program encourages rising Haverford juniors and seniors to engage in summer work related to entrepreneurship, small business, venture capital, or finance. Created in honor of John Whitehead ’43, former Chair of Goldman Sachs and Deputy Secretary of State, the program generously funds more than a dozen summer internships and helps to match students each year with alumni sponsors. Applicants are also allowed to design or line up their own internship if they so choose. Jessica Lopez ’21 worked with the real estate investment company Shift Capital to undertake real estate projects that have positive social impacts in the Kensington and Harrowgate neighborhoods of Philadelphia.

At Haverford, you really need to be open to being challenged and working to meet the challenge. It starts with the academics, and extends to the Honor Code— to how you interact with people and to how you imagine yourself as a leader and as a person

—Dr. Ted Love ’81

This is how Haverford shaped my story.

Cardiologist Dr. Ted Love’s drive to save lives, which spans the medical and business worlds, began at Haverford. The CEO at Global Blood Therapeutics, in San Francisco, says that it was Haverford’s blend of academics, expectations, and support that steered him to where he is today.

“Haverford taught me that I could accomplish much more than I thought I could just through simple perseverance, commitment, and dedication,” he says. “That’s something I’ve continued to build on, and the foundation for that was established here.”

HAVERFORD’S

PRIMARY DUTY

Leading Global Blood Therapeutics in its efforts to develop a treatment for sickle cell disease, a chronic blood disease that in the U.S. most commonly affects African Americans.

BORN

1959

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA

CLASS

1981

MAJOR Biology

SENIOR THESIS

An investigation of muscle actin and myosin structures using negative staining with electron microscopy

AFTER GRADUATION

1981–1985

Attended Yale University School of Medicine

1985–1992

Cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital

1992–1998

Senior VP of product development and regulatory affairs at Genentech, overseeing the creation of drugs like Rituxan, Herceptin, Xolair, TNKase, Raptiva, and Avastin

2001–2009

Chairman and CEO at Nuvelo, a $1 billion company

Executive VP of research and development and technical operations at Onyx Pharmaceuticals, playing a key role in initiating and completing several of Onyx’s first Phase 3 clinical trials

2014–PRESENT

CEO at Global Blood Therapeutics

Board member at the healthcare companies Amicus Therapeutics and Cascadian Therapeutics

LASTING IMPACT

Doing work that inspires you changes our world forever.

Haverford alumni take their talents to elite graduate schools, marquee employers, and far-flung locations across the world.

No matter the field, Haverford grads are always in high demand. Why?

Values shaped by the Honor Code—dignity, respect, and honesty—guide their actions toward others. Their consensus-style approach to decision-making helps them discern what matters and what doesn’t, leading them to resolve conflicts more quickly and move forward as ethical leaders. And their broad-based education teaches them how to apply lessons learned in one area of study to another.

The skills, wisdom, and disposition you develop through Haverford’s liberal arts lens can be applied to so many different fields and careers all over the planet. As a Ford, you’ll automatically stand out in the world, and be better able to inform, heal, and improve it.

Some of the places the Classes of 2022 and 2023 are living, working, and continuing their studies:

Graduate Schools

Carnegie Mellon University

Columbia University

Dartmouth College

Duke University

Harvard University

Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

Northwestern University

Oxford University

Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

The George Washington University

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, San Diego

University of Chicago

University of Michigan

University of Pennsylvania

Washington University

Employers

Amazon American Museum of Natural History

AmeriCorps

Capital One

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Citigroup

City of San Francisco

Compass Lexecon

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Epic

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Gerson Lehrman Group

Goldman Sachs

IBM Corporation

Cities

Atlanta, GA

Boston, MA

Chicago, IL

Greensboro, NC

Haverford, PA

Los Angeles, CA

Malvern, PA

New York, NY

J.P. Morgan Chase

Massachusetts

General Hospital

McKinsey & Company

Meta

Microsoft Corporation

Morgan Stanley National Institutes of Health

Ogilvy

PwC

Quaker Voluntary Service

Teach for America

UBS

University of Pennsylvania

U.S. Department of Justice

Vanguard

Wistar Institute

Palo Alto, CA

Philadelphia, PA

San Francisco, CA

San Diego, CA

Seattle, WA

Verona, WI

Washington, D.C.

Canada England

France

Ireland

Luxembourg

Scotland

Spain

Taiwan

Thailand

Supported jointly by the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, the English major interned at the Philadelphia-based Asian Arts Initiative (AAI). AAI works to advance racial equity and understanding by activating artists, youth, and the local community through creative practice and dialogue grounded in the diverse Asian American experience.

Muno worked as a public health intern with Justice for Girls Coalition of Washington. The internship was funded by the Jaharis Family Primary Care PreMedical Internship Fund. The position helped Muno learn more about the social determinants of health, with a particular focus on the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations of girls and young women.

With joint funding from the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Ulzii-Orshikh brought an “antidisciplinary” lens to computational thinking for the design of a computer science course in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab. After teaching the course at Tomujin Academy in Mongolia, he returned to MIT to tie the experience into current research on creativity in computer science.

With funding from the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, the computer science major returned to his home country of Kenya to develop Flux, an enterprise dedicated to resolving the country’s water crisis. With his Flux co-founder (and brother), Ruto is working to develop an inexpensive geospatial mapping solutions toolkit that can be implemented by water utilities across Kenya for better waterresource management and distribution.

Learn lifelong lessons by helping others meet daily needs.

Through summer internships, academic-year fellowships, and community-engaged learning opportunities, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship (CPGC) offers students multiple ways to deepen their dedication to peace and social justice and make meaningful connections and contributions to our neighboring Philadelphia community.

Sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, the PJEF offers paid, year-round internships with organizations tackling racism while building inclusivity and social justice. During the academic year, students receive work study compensation for participating in the program, which includes skill-building workshops, bi-weekly reflection groups, and other professional development opportunities. During the summer, students receive a stipend to work full time following an intensive, 5-day orientation.

Where do you go now? Anywhere you want.

Here’s where three recent graduates headed after earning their diplomas.

Professor Sabloff’s linear algebra course really helped shape my logical reasoning and thinking. Linear algebra is used heavily in many of the systems engineering courses at the University of Pennsylvania.

Walker is pursuing a master’s degree in systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, as part of Haverford’s Accelerated Master’s program. hav.to/wthaw

The collective focus on fairness in computing in the CS department has helped me be more aware of so many different ways our algorithms and models can have disastrous systemic biases, and thus how we can be more conscious of our assumptions and approaches.

As part of her Quaker Voluntary Service fellowship, the psychology major is working as a developmental staff member with MANNA, a Philadelphia nonprofit. hav.to/wthav

Living in Quaker House, with its focus on intentional community living, is definitely part of why I pursued QVS.

This is how Haverford shaped my story.

A 1999 Haverford graduate, Tamar Adler has led a life of cooking and writing that’s taken her from kitchens to mastheads, with stints at Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse and Harper’s Magazine. As she considered the role Haverford played in shaping her arc this far, she said, “I’m reminded that professors at Haverford took students’ intelligences seriously. I’m amazed, thinking back on my time there, at the degree to which we, as students, were granted intellectual parity with the people that taught us.”

“We came up with a concept for a book about street food and spent time in Thailand interviewing vendors. It didn’t turn into a cookbook, but that was the beginning of the idea of writing about food.”

HAVERFORD’S LASTING IMPACT

1977

WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK

CLASS

1999

MAJOR

Comparative Literature

SENIOR THESIS

En(trance)s:

Magical French Feminism

A synthetic performance in two acts

AFTER GRADUATION

1999–2000

Domestic policy intern/analyst, American Friends Service Committee, Washington, DC

JUNE 2000

Extended tour of Asia

2001–2004

Intern-turned-associate editor, Harper’s Magazine, New York City

2005–2007

Chef at Farm 255, Athens, Georgia

2007–2009

Cook at Chez Panisse, Berkeley, California, co-founding and directing the second meat CSA in the country, and leading Slow Food Berkeley

2009–2010

Wrote An Everlasting Meal: Cooking With Economy and Grace, Brooklyn

2011–2013

Taught cooking, gave talks, contributed to TheNew York Times Book Review and TheNewYorker.com

2013–PRESENT

Contributor, Vogue Magazine and New York Times Book Review; columnist, New York Times Magazine; author of Something Old, Something New

There are few places where students are given as much freedom, respect, and sense of themselves as substantial humans as they are at Haverford.

—Tamar Adler ’99

Our personal approach to your education begins during the admission process.

Haverford attracts some of the world’s brightest and most engaging college-bound students every year. Our primary criterion for admission is academic excellence.

We admit students who are able and interested in achieving at the highest levels of scholarship and service; who will engage deeply and substantively in the community; and who are intent on growing both intellectually and personally.

The admission process is conducted as a comprehensive review, where each applicant is treated personally and individually and a broad range of information is taken into account. We provide you with the opportunity to convey the broadest sense possible of who you are, what you have achieved during your secondary school experience, and how you will both contribute to and grow from a Haverford education.

Application Checklist

1. Common, Coalition, or QuestBridge Application

2. Haverford Supplement

3. School Report with most recent transcript (including 1st quarter grades if applying ED)

4. School Profile and Counselor Report

5. Two Teacher Evaluations (English, Math, Science, Social Studies or Foreign Language)

6. $65 application fee or fee waiver

7. Required as soon as first trimester or first semester grades are available: Mid-Year School Report Form with attached Secondary School Transcript

8. Early Decision Form (for ED Applicants only)

Optional:

1. Standardized Test Results: Either the SAT or ACT Exam. You can submit your self-reported or official scores in several ways. Learn more at: hav.to/howto

2. Supplemental material: Arts (follow instructions on the Common Application website) or Athletics (please contact Haverford’s coach directly).

3. Interview:

While interviews are not required, we do recommend that all applicants interview. A virtual interview is a great way for us to get to know you better and another way for you to get to know Haverford.

First-Year Student Tuition and Fees (2023–2024)

Tuition: $67,520

Student activity fee: $498

Housing and food: $18,882

Total: $86,900

First-Year orientation fee: $280

$62,948

Financial Aid

We are committed to making a Haverford education accessible and affordable.

With a $36 million annual aid budget, we meet the full demonstrated financial need of all admitted students –including international students, undocumented students, transfers, and students admitted from the waiting list. Nearly fifty percent of the student body receives some form of financial aid from Haverford.

We are equally committed to ensuring that all students thrive while at Haverford and have full access to the College’s educational and cultural opportunities, regardless of their financial resources. For example, your financial aid supports your participation in study abroad, social events on campus are free, and overall we strive to remove the hidden costs of attending college.

We are equally committed to minimizing student debt after graduation. If you’re a student from a family with an annual income below $60,000, you will not have any loans in your financial aid package; loan levels for incomes above that line range from only $1,500 to $3,000 per year.

Haverford Student Loan Debt Relief Fund

The Haverford Student Loan Debt Relief Fund, an innovative program to help students who graduate from Haverford with debt, provides funds to young alumni who are in transition after graduation or who have jobs of high social value with low remuneration. This $2 million endowed fund is one of only a handful of such programs in the nation.

For more information about tuition and financial aid, visit

OF STUDENTS RECEIVE SOME SORT OF FINANCIAL AID