RUTGERS - A record number of 45,200 students applied for admission to one or more of Rutgers’ campuses statewide.
Rutgers University opens its doors this semester to the Class of 2023, an accomplished group of students who are already working to make the world a better place and are poised to begin making their mark at Rutgers.
Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University-New Brunswick is welcoming Sydney Shiotani of Los Angeles, who won an ongoing role in the television series Better Things, as well as a voice role in the video game “Are You Smarter than a Fifth-Grader: Make the Grade.”
The daughter of two actors, Shiotani has been performing on one stage or another since playing a starfish in a kindergarten production.
“Mason Gross really stood out to me from all the other schools because they made an extra effort to get to know me as a student and as a person,” Shiotani said. “When you're acting in a smaller-sized class, you need that to be a safe space. Rutgers made it clear they were not only looking for good actors, but good people as well, which I really appreciated.”
Her classmates include Maximillian Lieberman of Freehold Township, who is starting his first year at the Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Honors College. Before college, he launched a Beatles cover band called The Stereotypes, which has raised hundreds of dollars for the Farm Sanctuary movement, a nationwide initiative to protect farm animals from cruelty.
Incoming Rutgers-Newark student JaniQua Guiste has already left her footprint on the university. While she was still a student at Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, she worked with a Rutgers team to develop a “solar suitcase” designed to provide light for people who have lost power through acts of nature.
The device was put to good use following Hurricane Maria, which caused billions of dollars of destruction in Puerto Rico in September 2017.
The three students, all incoming members of Rutgers’ Class of 2023, represent a cohort hailed by admissions officials as among the brightest and most accomplished in the university’s 253-year history.
“Each year, our incoming students are intelligent, talented and ready to take on whatever lies ahead of them,” said Courtney McAnuff, vice chancellor for enrollment management for Rutgers-New Brunswick. “We look forward to seeing what they will accomplish here and supporting them to be successful.”
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