May 8, 2025
This message is from MPA’s Office of Admission from the May 8 issue of Inside MPA. Click here to get in touch with Admission and learn more!
In a few short months, MPA Panthers from the Class of 2025 will become Wildcats, Badgers, Huskies, Ducks, Bruins, Boilermakers, Lions, and more.
They’ll pursue programs and passions in majors like engineering, neuroscience, business, biology, music, political science, public policy, and game design. Many of them will also be competing in athletics for their new schools, continuing their contests in basketball, cross country, skiing, and rowing.
They’ll dream big and shake the world at institutions across the United States, coast to coast and beyond, landing in 13 different states and Rome, Italy. They’ll be everywhere from California to Massachusetts and Colorado to North Carolina. They’re landing in cities all around the country, like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.
In all, the 53 members of MPA’s Class of 2025 will attend 38 different colleges and universities. With each year, it seems the diversity of college choices increases. This reflects how MPA’s college counseling office helps each graduating student find the right fit for them.
MPA seniors celebrated College Choice Day on May 5. In their chosen college apparel, seniors gathered throughout the day to create their annual college pennants, laugh together, take many, many photos, and create lasting memories as their time at MPA begins to end.
“College choices are led by each student’s set of priorities in choosing a school. These priorities center on a number of different themes, academic programming, athletic interests, scholarship awards, location, research opportunities, and extracurricular pursuits, which is why our seniors matriculate to such a wonderful array of schools. We have a system in place where I know each senior exceptionally well,” says director of college counseling Lisa Pederson.
Congratulations to the MPA Class of 2025–we cannot wait to see where your journey takes you next!
