On Friday, June 9, the RCDS community gathered for the 154th Graduation Exercises celebrating the Class of 2023. The ceremony featured speeches from Student Body President Tyler Moyer ’23, Senior Class President Adam Kern ’23, RCDS Head of School Randall Dunn, and Upper School Principal Peter Quagliaroli. RCDS grandparent Judge Judy Sheindlin GP’18, GP ’23 was the event’s special guest giving additional words of wisdom to the graduates.
One hundred and five graduates are headed to are headed to 59 different colleges and universities:
| Amherst College (2) |
| Barnard College |
| Bates College (2) |
| Boston University (3) |
| Brandeis University |
| Brown University (3) |
| Bryn Mawr College |
| Bucknell University (4) |
| Carleton College |
| Carnegie Mellon University |
| Claremont McKenna College |
| Colby College |
| Colgate University (4) |
| Colorado College |
| Columbia University (2) |
| Cooper Union |
| Cornell University (6) |
| Denison University (2) |
| Duke University (2) |
| Emory University (2) |
| George Washington University (2) |
| Georgetown University (4) |
| Hamilton College |
| Johns Hopkins University |
| King’s College London |
| Lehigh University (2) |
| Loyola Marymount University |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Mount Holyoke College |
| Northeastern University |
| Northwestern University |
| Pennsylvania State University (2) |
| Princeton University |
| Rice University |
| Stony Brook University |
| Swarthmore College |
| Syracuse University (2) |
| Tufts University (3) |
| Tulane University (3) |
| University at Buffalo |
| University of Chicago (3) |
| University of Kentucky |
| University of Maryland, College Park |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| University of Pennsylvania (2) |
| University of Richmond (3) |
| University of Rochester |
| University of St. Andrews |
| University of Toronto |
| University of Vermont |
| University of Virginia |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison (4) |
| Vanderbilt University (2) |
| Vassar College |
| Wake Forest University |
| Washington University in St. Louis (3) |
| Wesleyan University |
| William & Mary |
| Yale University (4) |
That is a list to make the school, parents, and students proud. And apparently the school and the counselors did their work to collect all the data, and, of course, with this list, the school is eager to show.
It would be interesting to see a list from Rye High School.