Class of 2020 by the numbers

June 2, 2020

Every student has a unique background and set of talents and interests that guide them toward a post-Graduation path. For some students, like Townsend, that path is in the armed forces.

“I was contacted by a recruiter from the Marines and obviously that takes a lot of decision to think if I’m going to do that. I was talking to my uncle who was in the army, and he talked about how he had gone to college for two years after and it just wasn’t something he wanted to do,” Townsend said. “He really just wanted to go do something else and have a job in the army and travel and solidify himself, and I really connected with that.”

This is taking a different path and I think it’s going to be really good. Especially with everything going on right now I’m really grateful that this is in my plans.

— Isaac Wahl

For other students, like Wahl, it is the right decision to take time during a gap year to consider all options, instead of rushing to choose which college is the right fit during senior year.

“This is taking a different path and I think it’s going to be really good. Especially with everything going on right now I’m really grateful that this is in my plans,” Wahl said. “It also just didn’t feel right to me to push myself into a college that I really wasn’t truly passionate about, so I hope to let this next year let my full potential come out and actually choose a school that I fully am invested in, and I’m willing to spend that many years of my life at.”

For Plantz, COVID-19 made his decision of which college to attend much harder. In the days leading up to the decision deadline, he said he called and met with friends to discuss the options.

“I think college is the best bet for me because there I can actually figure out what I want to do. Rather than just sit at home and just wander job to job like, ‘I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to do this.’ I can actually figure out what I want to do at the same time while learning stuff I want to learn,” Plantz said. 

The following pie chart depicts the percentage of the class of 2020 that will be attending school, joining the armed forces, going directly into the workforce, joining a sports team or taking a gap year. The “Unknown” section describes both the graduates that we did not receive a response from in the survey and the graduates who haven’t yet finalized their post-Graduation plans.

This pie chart shows the percentage of the class of 2020 going into each region of the United States or planning to go abroad. For this chart, students for whom we did not know the location of their future plans were not included.

 

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