I am having a great week, largely because I’ve spent a lot of time with my daughter’s kindergarten class. On my birthday I had “lunch” with her, which starts at 10:45 a.m.! At that hour, I just opted for the chocolate milk (maybe it’s just me, but school chocolate milk is always better than other places… kind […]
Campus Visit Planning 101
Even though we just entered March, spring has sprung here in Atlanta. As we approach Georgia Tech’s RD decision release, Rick is taking a week off from blogging (and very much “on” when it comes to reviewing applications and all-day committee review sessions). This week we wrap up our series on campus visits with guest blogger […]
Breaking Down The Admission Team. Week 5: Quarterbacks
This year we moved our Regular Decision Deadline from January 10 to January 1. When we initially made the call to change the date, one of my boss’s biggest concerns was that “we would ruin New Year’s Eve” by “making them” stay in to apply to Tech. My counter was two-fold. First, the application opens […]
Breaking Down The Admission Team: Week 4: Wide Receivers and Running Backs
One hot August night during college, a friend of mine (who happened to be the starting center on our football team) and I got pulled over by a cop who immediately started berating us about the speed limit and asking why we were out so late and if we had been drinking (we had not). […]
Breaking Down The Admission Team: Week 3: The Bench
Alright, after a break for the election and Thanksgiving, it’s time to refocus on the important things in life… like Fantasy Football. If you apply to a selective school (schools that have an admit rate of less than 33%), they will use a holistic review process. Given that full-time admission staff also needs to travel […]