Category: Admission Process

Applying to College Isn’t Like The Movies

Listen to the Podcast: Spreaker | Spotify | Apple Podcasts This week we welcome current Admission Digital Media Student Assistant Sarah Engel to the blog. Welcome, Sarah! This admission blog has long been written by experts in application evaluation, the admission counselors themselves. But they’ve always hoped you would seek out additional voices in your college […]

Life Lessons From SNL and College Admissions

There are pros and cons to your kids getting older.   Pro- No changing diapers or using a snot sucker during the winter (the diaper part was year-round, fyi. Don’t think I was just a seasonal diaper changer).  Con- No more kids rates/deals on food, flights, or theme parks.  Pro- Travel is much easier. No stroller […]

College Admission- A Long-term Vision

“I can’t wait to get that extra hour of sleep this weekend!” “This is great. We can stay up until midnight twice on Saturday.” “I wish we could ‘fall back’ every weekend, so we could get an extra hour before Mondays.” These are three statements I heard last Friday at work and at home (Identities […]

College Admission- What the Funnel?!

Listen to the podcast! Apple | Spotify | Spreaker If we received over 5,000 applications, how did we not end up enrolling over 1,000 students this year?  Wait. You are telling me we are a public college, and we get more applications from outside of our state than from residents within it?  I am deeply concerned. We admitted […]

How Does the Admission Review Timeline Work?

This week we welcome Assistant Director of Digital Media, Samantha Rose-Sinclair to the blog. Welcome back, Sammy! Listen to the podcast! Apple | Spotify | Spreaker | Google Have you ever wondered how the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade works? Or how sneezing works? What about the Manhattan Grid? One of my favorite podcasts (besides ours, cough […]