- Applications: 4,149
- Acceptance Rate: 12.9%
- Class of 2019: 260
- In State: 38.5%
- Out of State: 61.5%
- International: 8.1%
- Students of Color: 40.8%
- Female: 55.8%
- Male: 44.2%
- Average High School GPA: 3.8
- First generation: 14.6%
- Transfers: 15
- New Resources Students (23+): 7
The Class of 2019 Spent over 141,000 Hours Engaging with Pitzer’s Core Values
through community service, environmental action, foreign exchange and cultural activities, and engagement with local, state and/or federal government policies
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The Class of 2019 connected with Interdisciplinary Learning in a variety of ways, including:
Operating a summer camp that provided children with meals, day care and enrichment activities.
Leading workshops on Pluralism within Conflict and Human Trafficking.
Enrolling in courses on religion, history and ancient culture while studying Hebrew and Arabic.
While engaging with Pitzer’s core values, members of the Class of 2019:
Worked to build classrooms and volunteered at an orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS in Guatemala
Started a community garden and educated members of the community about community land trusts
Founded Green Cross, a non-profit that promotes environmental awareness programs around the world
Created policies to help their high schools become carbon neutral and improve their carbon footprint
Founded a Change for Change program to purchase school supplies for impoverished children in Tibet
Met with service clubs and delegated high school funds as member of the Service Council
The Class of 2019 Engaged with Their Communities through over 278,000 Hours of Co-Curricular Activities*, Including:
Members of the Class of 2019
Spent time on a kibbutz learning about agriculture
Filmed documentaries about activist movements in Ferguson, MO
Built their own electric bikes and worked to create more bike-friendly infrastructures
Wrote grant proposals to fund gender-inclusive bathrooms at high schools
Unionized dining hall employees and fought for the rights of undocumented workers
Authored cookbooks focusing on healthy eating
Worked as professional yoga instructors
Started businesses selling re-purposed thrift store clothes and goods
Introduced the concept of intersectionality to high school feminist club
DID YOU KNOW?
Members of the Class of 2019 Have Citizenship in 29 Countries Around the World!
Languages Spoken by the Class of 2019 Include:
American Sign Language
Arabic
Bengali
Chinese
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Hmong
Hwesa
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Korean
Luganda
Marathi
Panjabi
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Quechua
Russian
Shona
Spanish
Tamil
Telugu
Tigrigna
Urdu
Vietnamese
Members of the Class of 2019 Have Lived in:
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Belize
Bermuda
Canada
China
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Guatemala
Hong Kong
India
Iran
Japan
Korea
Mexico
Philippines
South Africa
Switzerland
Taiwan
Uganda
United
Kingdom
United States
Vietnam
Zimbabwe
