Within six months of graduation, 97% of Wellesley’s class of 2022 was employed, in school, or in military service, according to the College’s annual class destination survey. Jen Pollard, associate provost and executive director of Wellesley’s Career Education, is understand ably proud of that statistic, but she stresses that it doesn’t show the whole picture.
“For Wellesley, it’s only part of the story,” she says. “We have brilliant students who come here wanting to do so many different things after they graduate. I think the number that really starts to illuminate the work that we do, is the percentage of students who are finding jobs that are allowing them to have a meaningful impact.” This number is high, too: 96.48% of recent graduates reported that they believe their work is meaningful.
Rachel Sih ’22 is one such alum. She is currently working at Warner Music and will be attending Harvard Law School in the fall with a goal of pursuing a career in music law, a passion she discovered through a summer class at UCLA. That led her to intern at Warner and start looking into law school through Career Education.
“What I love most about my job is that it’s a way to marry my interests in the business and legal side with my interest in creativity and helping support artists and songwriters,” she says. Sih, who wrote her senior thesis about the legal aspects of Taylor Swift’s rerecording of her music, appreciates that her professors were willing to tailor classes to her...
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