Random Admission Thoughts February 2012 Edition
David Graves February 9th, 2012
First, I will be out of the office for the next five days, so please hold off on any questions, or if you do submit them, be patient, as I will not be able to review any emails/blog comments until late next week. Second, February in Admissions means that our office is working on a […]
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Tags: documents, freshman admission, timelines, transfer admissions
Summer/Fall 2012 Transfer Admission
David Graves February 2nd, 2012
As our review of the freshman transcripts (just the transcripts, not the entire file!) comes to an end, we will now starting up our transfer reviews. The transfer decision process is very different from the freshman process, so please take note. While the freshman decisions go out at three times during the year (November, late […]
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Tags: transcripts, transfer, transfer admissions
Missing First-Year Documents
David Graves January 31st, 2012
Our office is at the point where we have caught up with the mail, the electronic documents, and the checking of our holding files for other matching materials. Over the next week or so, we will continue to match up materials that have just come in with freshman files, as well as do a thorough […]
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Tags: documents, freshman admission, recommendations, transcripts
Quiet Time
David Graves January 23rd, 2012
It is now quiet time in our office, a practice that we have done for about 6 years. The main desk will still be taking calls and answering emails, but the admissions counselors will be focused on freshman file reading, and thus will not be able to take calls or visit with students/families that visit […]
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Tags: file reading, freshman admission, quiet time
January Freshman Admission Update
David Graves January 19th, 2012
We are a few days out from the admissions deadlines, so I will try to give you an update on what is happening and where we are right now in the process. Over the long weekend, approximately 2,200 freshman applications were submitted, and we still have a few hundred more that we need to correct […]