Emergency Codes
David Graves July 9th, 2019
Last week, I volunteered for my 23rd year as a cabin counselor at Camp Sunshine, a camp for children with cancer. The campers during my week range from 7-12 years of age, and there is a wide range of situations with the campers, from ones who have been off treatment for years and having no […]
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Tags: activities, applications, freshman admission
2020 Freshman Essay Questions
David Graves May 30th, 2019
Every year, our office reviews the freshman application for changes that we would like to see for the next year. During this review, we also look at the short essay questions that are required for First Year applicants. Based on our review of the essays from last year, we are keeping the essay prompts the […]
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Tags: application changes, essays, freshman admission
Test Scores and Air Bags
David Graves May 21st, 2019
This past weekend, I was driving my father to the Atlanta airport, and as is usual, the topic of college admissions came up. There was a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal which discussed the SAT. In one section of the op/ed piece, the writers stated “the SAT is still the best objective […]
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Tags: freshman admission, grades, rigor, test scores
2019 Wait List Update
David Graves May 3rd, 2019
Starting today (May 3), we will begin to finalize our decisions for students on the Wait List. I expect that all decisions will be completed sometime in the next few weeks, but I do not have an exact date. Due to the fact that our deposit numbers are very close to what we predicted for […]
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Tags: decisions, waitlist
April/May 2019 Random Admission Thoughts
David Graves April 29th, 2019
Late April/Early May is always a challenging time in Admissions, and it always brings about interesting questions. We are at the end of one cycle of admissions for the freshmen and transfers starting in Fall 2019, and we are starting to begin working with rising HS seniors for the following year. Throw in the anxious […]