Rory Sommers
Admissions Counselor
rsommers@sea.edu
800-552-3633 ext. 566
Admissions Counselor for colleges in: Arizona, Connecticut, (Washington) DC, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York (Central & City), Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Hello! My name is Rory Sommers and I'm the newest Admissions Counselor at SEA Semester. I grew up on Long Island in New York and graduated in 2009 from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in Ancient Art History and Archaeology. I spent my junior year abroad in Athens, Greece and the following summer on archaeological digs at the sites of Bethsaida, Israel and Halmyris, Romania. When I decided to pursue my Master's degree in archaeology, I knew that I wanted to return abroad and graduated in 2011 from Newcastle University in England with an M.A. in Ancient Greek and Roman Archaeology. After working for a while as a recruiter for a different study abroad program, however, I decided that what I truly wanted to do was pursue a career in international education – and that's where SEA Semester came in!
While a much different program than my past experience abroad, I was immediately impressed with SEA Semester and the unique opportunity it provided to students. I'm sure like many, when I first heard about SEA Semester years ago I assumed it was a program specifically for students of ocean sciences and related fields – how wrong I was! In my new role with SEA, I'm hoping to discover SEA Semester for the first time, just like an incoming student, and I'm looking forward to using my own new and growing learning experiences to work hand in hand with the students starting their own!
For fun, I constantly try to improve my skills at cooking and baking (and then pawn off the product to friends and coworkers so I don't have to eat it all myself), sew and craft, read, play video games, and – the most expensive hobby of all – travel!