My work

Mathematica is an organization that collects and analyzes information to help its clients make policy and program choices. Clients include federal government organizations, state governments, non-profits, academic institutions, and private corporations. I perform statistical analyses on data for projects relating to health care and education.

Key Kenyon experience

Writing my political science honors thesis. The magnitude of the undertaking was on a level that I had never experienced before. I learned a great deal about and gained confidence in my academic abilities and enjoyed a deep satisfaction in the project's completion. The thesis subject was U.S. health care policy, a topic that I care about, and its conclusions inform my career direction. I'm starting law school next year.

"My political science honors thesis was on a level I had never experienced before. U.S. health care policy is a topic I care about, and its conclusions inform my decision to start law school next year."

Kenyon experiences that directly help me to perform my job include: programming and statistics from courses for my math major, SAS experience from an econometrics class, and writing and research skills from my political science courses and thesis.

Job high point

Writing the SAS program that analyzed beneficiary-level data in an evaluation of a Medicare Part D payment demonstration. In writing this program, I learned several new data-processing techniques, improved my SAS skills tremendously, and will likely receive a journal publication byline (pending).

Outside of my job

I play for an adult-league soccer team in the Boston area, participate in an after-work coworker running group, and volunteer at a food pantry run by a local church. In each of my Kenyon years, I played on the varsity soccer team and did volunteer work through the Archon Society.

Next stop:

These past few months have been exciting for me. I applied to eight law schools in total—Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, University of Michigan, UC-Berkeley, University of Chicago, and NYU—and was thrilled to receive admissions offers from all of them. I've decided to go to Yale.