Arkansas Bound with the SEC
David Graves May 11th, 2012
For the last six years or so, I have spent a few days each May meeting with Admissions personnel from the other SEC schools (welcome Texas A&M and U Missouri!) to share ideas, talk about different issues, laugh, cry (okay, not too much crying), and share stories from the year. It is also a good […]
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Tags: admissions, sec
Wait List Update
David Graves May 7th, 2012
I am happy to announce that we will begin making a limited number of offers from the wait list for the Fall 2012 term starting later today! Over 700 students have requested to stay on the Wait List (out of about 1,100 offered the option), and we will only be able to offer admission to […]
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Tags: freshman admission, waitlist
Question about Essay Questions
David Graves April 27th, 2012
At this time of year, we start looking at the freshman application, and what need need to tweak/alter for following years. We often debate back and forth about our four short essay questions (150-200 words), and what we could ask that is creative yet specific, allows for an applicant to share more about themselves, but […]
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Tags: essays, freshman admission
April 2012 Updates for Freshman and Transfers
David Graves April 19th, 2012
It is mid-April, and life is still fairly hectic in our office. Freshman decisions are out, but we are still in the thick of reviewing transfer files, monitoring commitment deposits for the freshman class, traveling, hosting accepted student events on campus and around the US, mailing out tons of materials, etc. But we also know […]
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Tags: deposit, freshman admission, new transfers, transcripts
2012 Admitted Freshman Statistics
David Graves April 9th, 2012
As I promised last week, here are the statistics on the Admitted Class of 2016. I do not have the stats for the wait-list group ( just over 1100 were offered wait-list) at this time as we do not know who will remain on the WL, so you will have to be happy with this […]