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...number of graduating seniors who identify as gay nearly doubled from freshman year to senior year. The number of students who self-identified as bisexual and neither gay, straight, nor bisexual also grew over the same time period. The data reflect responses to questions in last week's survey asking how respondents identified at the beginning of college and how they identify today...
After finance and consulting, education clocked in as the third most-popular field, drawing 13.7 percent of graduates planning to enter the workforce, likely reflecting the recruiting success of programs such as Teach for America, which reported last month that 17 percent of this year’s class had applied to its two-year teaching program...
...number of Harvard seniors who intend to join the workforce next year and have found employment by graduation rose from 58 percent last year to nearly two-thirds for the Class of 2010, according to The Crimson’s fourth annual senior survey...
...uptick comes as the broader U.S. economy shows signs of recovery following last year’s devastating financial crisis, but the figure still marks a drop from 2007, when 73.2 percent of such graduates had finalized employment plans by the time they left the Yard...
...high-paying finance and consulting sectors, which just three years ago hired 47 percent of seniors intending to work right after graduation, came in comparatively low at 30.52 percent, though that figure represents a rise from 20 percent last year, when companies slashed hiring levels as Wall Street grappled with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression...