November 2, 2009 – 4:24 pm
We’re in the process of shifting gears here. My colleagues and I are coming in off the road, settling back into the office, and preparing to move from focusing on recruitment (our task for the past few months) to focusing on selection (our task for the next few months).
October 12, 2009 – 7:16 pm
Application season is creeping up on us very quickly. Most of you seniors have probably already started your applications, and hopefully your essays are well on their way toward fully-crafted. Early deadlines will begin popping up in November, and December and January will round out the bulk of your application deadlines.
September 30, 2009 – 8:32 pm
For many students, the college search does not end with the discovery of one top-choice school (this was the case for me; see my post from last year on “the perfect college”). But for some the search does end this way. Some students visit a particular campus, meet a tour guide or current student, or sit in on a class, and things just click – and they know they’ve found their top-choice school.
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.
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.
