<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/final/magazine/spring-2019/growing-globally-helping-international-students-succeed.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Growing Globally: Helping International Students Succeed</title><excerpt>Rebekah Wong ’17 has returned home to Singapore, but she’s still working for admissions as she did during her years on campus. Now she travels and connects with prospective students on the Pacific Rim, meeting applicants in person in Malaysia and Indonesia and sharing her own experience as an international student at Westmont. “The whole process can be so overwhelming,” she says. “I want them to know a real person who has walked exactly in their steps when searching for a college in the United States.” Three current students, Andres Quiros, Martha Bartchy and Mpho Mthethwa serve as global recruiters, and they communicate every day with prospective students overseas. Mpho ’22 (South Africa) received a Michaelhouse Scholarship; Andres ’20 (Costa Rica) majors in economics and business and plays on the men’s soccer team; and Martha ’19 (Germany) will graduate with a degree in psychology.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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