Monthly Archives: March 2009

Mythbusters: The Wait List

March 27, 2009 – 12:32 pm

Well, we had another highly competitive year for admission and, as is always the case, we had many more qualified applicants than we have space for in our class. Those of you who have been offered a spot on the wait list are students whom we believe are fully qualified and would contribute greatly to our campus but for whom we don’t, given our size limitations, have space at present. Selective admission is a difficult process for us, as we try to select a class from among many strong, similarly-qualified applicants.

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Start checking the mail…

March 24, 2009 – 10:17 am

…letters are on their way!

The majority of our decision letters left the office yesterday afternoon via the U.S. Postal Service. All letters will be sent in time to meet our April 1 notification deadline, but we wanted to get the bulk of them out as soon as possible. Pictures are below!

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Mythbusters: GPA

March 11, 2009 – 12:58 pm

Our average GPA is a 22.96.

Seriously.

We’re asked that question so frequently – “What’s your average GPA?” – that we thought we’d actually go ahead and calculate it. So we took all of the enrolled students in our current first-year class and averaged together all of the GPAs that their high schools reported to us last year. And the golden number came out to be 22.96.

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The Quest of the Application

March 5, 2009 – 10:49 am

(An Epic Poem by Tom)

’Twas winter of 2009,
The days were short; the air was chill,
And high school seniors ’cross the land
From months of work at last were still.

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