First-Year Counselors (FroCos) are experienced, mature, and knowledgable seniors from diverse backgrounds who guide first-year students as they settle into their new lives as Yalies. The Hopper FroCos live with the Hopper first-year students in Bingham Hall on Old Campus. FroCos host duty nights, study breaks, and other events to bring everyone together as a community. FroCos are also available to discuss choosing and managing classes; balancing extracurricular and academic life, or anything else that might be on a first-year student’s mind.
Your 2024-25 FroCos
Sarah Cook
Sarah Cook (she/her) is a senior in Grace Hopper from Nashville, Tennessee. She is majoring neuroscience and is also a Global Health Scholar. On campus, she does neuroscience research and plays violin in the Berkeley College Orchestra, and she recently retired as University Editor for the Yale Daily News. In Hopper, she can be found in the buttery grabbing a cup of cookie dough and a Diet Coke or enjoying a quiet breakfast in the dining hall. She may also be found in her common room knitting or going on runs to East Rock. She can’t wait to welcome the class of 2028 to Yale and Hopper!
Maheen Iqbal
Maheen Iqbal is a senior in Grace Hopper College from Toronto, Canada. She is pursuing degrees in Political Science and Comparative Literature, and is a student in the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. On campus, she is involved with the Migration Alliance at Yale, Yalies for Pakistan, and the Yale International Relations Leadership Institute. Maheen can always be found cafe hopping around New Haven, catching up with friends in the Hopper courtyard, or studying at the Asian American Cultural Center. Her years at Yale have been the most special and formative of her life, and she can’t wait to welcome the Hopper class of 2028 to Yale!
Clay Jamieson
Clay Jamieson (he/him) is a History major from Severna Park, Maryland. Clay loves music and spent the 2023-2024 academic year on a leave of absence to sing and travel with the Whiffenpoofs, one of Yale’s numerous a cappella groups. He spends his free time climbing the Giant Steps, playing the grand piano in the Grace Hopper common room, or talking people’s ears off about Yale history, a personal obsession of his. For the past three summers, he has worked as a federal wildland firefighter in eastern Oregon. Clay has completely fallen in love with Yale, and is excited to watch his first-years do the same.
Rachel Lopez
Rachel Lopez (she/her) is a senior in Grace Hopper and a proud Ecuadorian from Queens, New York. She is pursuing a degree in Economics and just returned from a semester abroad in Milan, Italy. Rachel has served as an interpreting and diversity director at the HAVEN Free Clinic and on the board of LWAY. She loves traveling and also studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina last summer (feel free to reach out to her if studying abroad is something you’re interested in during your time at Yale!). You can often find her at a cafe, La Casa, or the Hopper buttery. In her free time, she loves binge-watching TV shows, going to the gym, and doing nail art (fun fact: she is a nail technician). She is always down to get iced coffee, boba, or try a new food spot, and she can’t wait to welcome the class of 2028!
Cindy Mei
Cindy Mei (she/her) is a senior in Grace Hopper from Chicago, Illinois. She is a Neuroscience major and conducts research in epilepsy and Tourette’s syndrome. On campus, she served as president of Yale Math Competitions and vice president of the Junior Class Council, and currently edits for the Yale Scientific Magazine (ask her how to get involved with STEM outreach!) Outside of class, she enjoys ranking local restaurants on the Beli app, playing video games with friends, and curling up with a good book and matcha latte in hand (currently reading The Poppy War, recommendations welcomed!) She is super excited to welcome the class of 2028 to Hopper and Yale!
Nikki Ng
Nikki Ng (she/her) is a senior from Queens, New York. She is majoring in Economics with a Certificate of Advanced Language Study in Chinese, and just spent a semester abroad in Taiwan where she’s been hiking, eating, and meeting lovely people from around the world (as you all will in your next four years at Yale). On campus, she’s involved with Yale Alternative Investments, and can be found with an iced americano at the Elm or in the Hopper gym getting a run in between classes. She’s nothing but ecstatic to share with the Class of 2028 everything beautiful and good about our little corner of Elm and College called Hopper.
Braden Wong
Braden Wong (he/him) is a senior in Grace Hopper from Pasadena, California. He is an Ethics, Politics, and Economics major interested in technology and policy as two avenues to create impact in the long run. On campus, he really enjoys grabbing meals and talking about thought-provoking questions :P Outside of campus, he really likes to code and build in his free time and has worked in several early-stage startups in software engineering. So you may ask, why is he majoring in EP&E? Because it is fun. Welcome to Yale, Class of 2028, and let’s make your time at Hopper the best!