summer search update

by Nicola Twilley, Director of Marketing & Communications

Across the organization, Summer Search is sending 735 first and second-year students away on summer programs (compared to 538 last year)! In addition to long-time summer program partners like Outward Bound, Amigos, NOLS, and AFS, we’re excited to announce first-time partnerships with programs Farm and Wilderness Questers in Vermont, Plantation Farm Camp in California, and Cheley Camp in Colorado.

A huge welcome to our newest alumni: there are 205 Summer Searchers across the country in the Class of 2008! 199 are going on to college (in line with our historical 97% college attendance rate), including Dickinson, Brandeis, UC Berkeley, Occidental, Whitman and Cornell. If you’re a sophomore, junior or senior in college, keep your contact details updated and consider reaching out to new freshman through the alumni online community: you can be a great resource and role model. If you’re a freshman, make sure to activate your account so you can reach out to older alumni at your college for support.