Hometown
Windsor, Connecticut 

Extracurriculars
Boys Track & Field; Boys Cross Country; Head Tour Guide; PRISM Co-President; Co-President of Brothers in Unity; Peer Mentor; Pelican Support Network Mentor

Accolades
Nathaniel Horton Batchelder Prize, awarded at Commencement; Matthew Whitehead Award, in recognition of contributions to creating and supporting an inclusive community at Loomis Chaffee

Senior Courses
College-Level Statistics; College-Level English IV: The Harlem Renaissance; English IV: The Graphic Novel; English IV: Voices of Dissent; Spanish IV; Ceramics; Introduction to Economics; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Topics in Ethical Theory; Middle East: History of Peace and Conflict; Developmental Psychology

Next Year
University of Connecticut

 

Running the Loop is one of Corey Plummer’s favorite things to do on the Island. A captain of the Loomis Chaffee boys track and field team and a standout 400-meter runner, Corey says he finds traversing the Loop especially fun “when you run with a friend or two, listening to music, jogging and having a laugh.” 

It follows that Corey also loves being around people. A head tour guide, president of the student multicultural organization PRISM, president of Brothers in Unity, and a leader of the Pancake Society during his senior year, Corey thrives on meeting people and feels comfortable talking in front of them. That was not always the case; his outgoing nature is a trait he discovered after entering Loomis as a freshman, and it took time for him to grow into a leader. 

When he first came to the school, he says, he was a quiet student and was not comfortable getting up in front of a crowd of people and speaking his mind. Now, leadership and speaking skills are two of his abilities that he values most. He says he developed these skills through his Loomis experiences. “It’s great that students have a lot of opportunities to improve themselves through speaking at events,” he says. “Having those opportunities would not necessarily happen elsewhere.”

Academically, Corey considers math and science his strongest fields of study, but he says English and writing are the areas where he grew most as a Loomis student. “I look back on my work as a freshman and think that some of the papers that I wrote were awful,” he reflects. “But my teachers always took the time outside of class to help me succeed. I scheduled a lot of one-to-one meetings with them, and all my teachers were open to helping me improve as a writer and a person.”

A Windsor resident, Corey has known about Loomis Chaffee for most of his life, and he admits that part of his reason for attending Loomis was “convenience” since the Island is close to his home. What sealed the deal for him, though, was attending a revisit day for accepted students. “Interacting with students and faculty members, Loomis felt a lot more welcoming than the other schools that I visited,” he says.

The school will soon be a family affair for Corey as his younger sister, Lauren, will attend next year as a freshman. “She knows a lot of people on campus and feels very connected to the school already,” he says.