Albright College Set to Welcome Class of 2015

August 17, 2011

Reading, Pa.  – Albright College will welcome the class of 2015 on Thursday, August 25, 2011.  The class of 2015 consists of 537 freshmen who will be joined by an additional 40 transfer students. 

The class of 2015 represents a 5 percent increase in admission over the previous year.  Students come from the largest applicant pool in the College’s history with more than 7,000 applications — a 3 percent increase over last year’s record. Twelve states, the District of Columbia and nine countries are represented among class members.

Opening day events include: 

Thursday, August 25

• 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Freshman Move-In - Faculty, staff, students and alumni, including Albright’s president, Lex O. McMillan III, will help new students and their parents move belongings into residence halls.
• 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Welcome Picnic – New students and their families will be treated to a picnic on the lawn between Memorial Chapel and Masters Hall.  The festivities are sponsored by the Albright College Alumni Association.
• 3 p.m. Opening Convocation in the Bollman Center features an academic procession and freshman “pinning” ceremony.            

Freshman Orientation, held August 26-28, is led by upperclass students, the Albright POPS (Peer Orientation Persons), who take the newcomers under their wings. The primary goal of the program is to acclimate new students to all aspects of Albright’s campus. Orientation programs, such as Academic Advising, DUI-A Powerful Lesson, Sex and the Law, You Don’t Know Me by Mykee Fowlin and College Survival 101, introduce new students to available resources that will aid in their transition to college academics, residential living, athletics, and other student involvement initiatives.

Post-orientation programs are offered to engage new students in the campus culture. The overall purpose of the orientation program is to inspire confidence so that new students can balance new challenges and successfully adjust to college life.

Albright College is located at 13^th & Bern Streets, Reading, Pa.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Two-thirds of students graduate with dual/individualized majors in more than 200 different combinations. Albright enrolls about 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 800 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.