ALUMNI JOBS SHOW DEDICATION TO PUBLIC SERVICE: Law, Education Top List
By Karthik Kasaraneni ‘07
Since the late eighties, Choate Rosemary Hall has kept an active record of the professions that its alumni pursue after graduation. As of the end of last year, the school had logged the professions of 8,511 of its former students and grouped each of them under one of eigthy-three industries ranging from Landscaping to Military.
Mr. William J. Knapp, Director of Information Resources in the Development/Alumni Relations Department told The News that the information was collected and sorted into categories by Harris Publishing, a well-known alumni directory vendor.
“Essentially, Harris collects data by contacting our alumni and then publishing an electronic and printed directory, which they market back to the school’s alumni base,” said Knapp.
The directory has been updated roughly every five years, but is also subsidized by information collected by the Alumni Relations department from reunion surveys, personal visits, phone calls, direct mail and the online alumni directory, added Knapp.
Interestingly enough, with a full 9% of Choate graduates going into Law/Legal Services, it is by far the most popular field. In second place, the closest field is Education – Teaching, with 6.8% of Choate alumni pursuing that field.
There is a four-way tie for the least popular field between Cosmetology, Landscaping Administrative/Clerical/Secretarial, and somewhat surprisingly, Math/Statistics--each with one alumnus pursuing that field.
Some Interesting Figures
Five Choate alumni currently work as elected government officials while 108 are non-elected government officials. Twelve alumni are listed as “not working at this time” and 401 are Homemakers. There are 509 alumni listed under Brokerage/Securities/Investments, 383 alumni under Business Entrepreneurs/Owners, 255 in Consulting, 214 in Banking, 58 in Accounting, and 30 in Financial Services. Of the alumni listed, 206, or 2.4%, are physicians and 20 alumni are dentists. Sixty Choaties are in the military while 58 are in sports.
