Great Adventures

6/3/2024

Last week our seniors took part in what has become a popular tradition at Roeper (and elsewhere) of taking a group photo in their college sweatshirts.

One of the great advantages of being a student in the United States is the rich diversity of post-secondary options available to our graduates here and abroad, from large research universities to small liberal arts colleges to institutions specializing in mining or aeronautics or fashion design, apprenticeships or internships, a job, or maybe to taking a gap year to explore.

What we recognize when we celebrate this next step for our graduates—wherever they are going and in whatever field they have chosen—is that there is no one right destination; that whether a post-secondary choice is a “good” one is not determined by the number of students who attend it (or are rejected), the size of its endowment, the number of papers its professors have published, or the fame or wealth it will produce, but by how good a fit it is with the interests and passions of the individual who has chosen it.

While Roeper is not a “college prep” school in the conventional sense, our mission is about preparing students for the future, both ours and theirs, long and short term, and empowering our graduates to make the choices that are best for them. That future includes the steps they will take tomorrow as much as those they will take 20 years from now.

Our relatively small class of Roeper graduates will be heading off to an amazingly broad range of destinations after they leave us, a testament to both the diversity of our student body and our belief in cultivating that diversity and developing in them the capacity to define success in their own terms.

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