“Be yourselves!” was Hunter President Nancy Cantor’s advice to the incoming class at Convocation on September 11. “Bring your diverse selves and lived experiences to everything you do here, for that is the winning recipe not only for our Hunter family but for our world going forward.”
And what a diverse class it is!
According to the college’s “quick snapshot,” it includes 2,904 first-year students and 1,193 transfer students, with an average high-school grade-point average of 91.71. The average SAT score was 1250.
Hunter students come from all corners of New York City and beyond, with 87.6% coming from New York City public schools. About 6% come from other New York communities and about 3% hail from out of state. The incoming class joins a student body that is a third immigrants and almost three-quarters minorities.
Hunter’s top feeder high schools are:
- Midwood HS
- Brooklyn Technical HS
- Fort Hamilton HS
- Edward R. Murrow HS
- James Madison HS
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt HS
- Forest Hills HS
- Stuyvesant HS
- HS Health Professions
- Francis Lewis HS
President Cantor counseled students to use their “many intersectional identities” to advance Hunter’s motto, “Mihi cura futuri-The care of the future is mine.”
“We need you all to play a part in caring,” she said, and “to engage with empathy for the ‘other.’
“You give me hope,” she concluded, “and I know we will give you care.”
