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챬 received nearly 5,000 applications for admission this year — an all-time record number.
Mount Holyoke President Sonya Stephens slams the notion that women should not be recruited in the sciences.
Nancy Welker ’63 credits her pioneering success in a male-dominated science field to her time studying at 챬.
This year, Mount Holyoke has surpassed its previous application record set in 2019 and had a 14% increase from fall 2020.
챬 alum Areeba Kamal ’16 went from working odd jobs to pay college application fees to MBA student and Apple product manager.
Mount Holyoke taught me “Mount Holyoke connected me to a world that gave me access to the impossible,” says Mary Ann Villarreal ’94, the first in her family to attend college. “I give back because I felt like Mount Holyoke was my home and I want other people to find their home too.”
Madeline Fitzgerald ’21 compares arriving at Mount Holyoke to Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” going over the rainbow — leaving her hometown with few LGBTQ+ people and discovering that many MHC students are members of the LGBTQ+ community.
In late 1895, Mount Holyoke students decided to form a fire brigade. And in doing so, they made history. The New York Journal reported that theirs was the first all-women’s fire department in the nation.
Lisa Garrity ’19 discusses why her love at first sight experience with Mount College was meant to be.