Sarah Lawrence College Academic Experience

Past Performance

• 94% of our freshmen returned for sophomore year.
• 70% of our most recent graduates graduated in four years.
• How long does it usually take to graduate from freshman year?
  • On average, 70% of our freshman graduate in four years.
  • On average, 5% of our freshman graduate in five years.

What Do We Like To Study?

Most Popular Majors

• literature/writing
• performing arts
• psychology

Academic Calendar for 2002-03.

Academic Calendar System:

• Semester System (two terms comprise academic year)

New student orientation:

• Orientation for new students is held in September and January.

• 35% continue immediately.
• 70% continue within 5 years.

• Law School: 10%
• Medical School: 7%
• Dental School: 1%
• Graduate Business Programs: 6%
• Graduate Arts and Sciences Programs: 52%

• UC Berkeley, Columbia University, Middlebury College, New York U.

• Jane Alexander, actress, head of National Endowment for the Arts; Alice Walker, novelist; Barbara Walters, journalist; Jon Avnet and Brian DePalma, filmmakers; Holly Robinson, actress; Jean Baker Miller, psychiatrist and author, Toward a New Psychology of Women; Janice Simpson, editor, Time magazine; Meredith Monk, composer, choreographer, and director; Ellen James, superior court justice.