Welcome, Class of 2019!
![In a time-honored tradition, incoming students gather for the lighting of candles around the Dimple during the opening weekend of the academic year.](https://wheatoncollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2019-candle-lighting-570x379.jpg)
This academic year, Wheaton welcomed 437 first-year students in the Class of 2019. Even before arriving, these remarkable students were well on their way to doing amazing things. The class includes a Junior Olympics qualifying fencer, a ski instructor and mountain rescuer, a competitive fiddler, a Carnegie Hall performing pianist, an Italian opera singer and an Arabic translator, just to name a few. Here is a glimpse of the class by the numbers: