This week Georgia Tech’s Director of Special Scholarships, Chaffee Viets, joins us for the first in a 2-part series about scholarship selection. Welcome, Chaffee! Imagine you are a child playing with a blocks and cutouts set. You have stars, triangles, squares, circles, and rectangles. Each block is made of pure gold. You place all of […]
Two Sides of the Same Story
This Saturday we will release admission decisions. On Friday, we will gather our entire staff in a room we affectionately call the “collaboratory” or the “collaborodome”—a big space including about 12 work stations, a few white boards, a flat screen, and more forms of chocolate than you find in most grocery stores. First, we will […]
Don’t Cheat Yourself
Happy New Year! I hope you had a great break and are ready for school to kick back off. Okay, well, one out of two ain’t bad. Today’s Disclaimers: Today’s post is for high school seniors. If you are not a senior, you are still welcome to read it. This post acknowledges the presence of […]
Admissions Festivus
I recently had the opportunity to co-write this article with my friend and colleague, Brennan Barnard, Director of College Counseling at The Derryfield School, an independent day school in Manchester, New Hampshire. Here are the first few paragraphs to give you a sense of the premise: College counselors who work in secondary schools, and college […]
What’s Your Bus?
This week we welcome Communications Officer (and former Assistant Director of Admission) Becky Tankersley to the blog. Welcome, Becky! Last month a piece of Atlanta history came crashing down. In case you missed it, the city imploded the Georgia Dome. As with most demos, news crews from all over the city were there to cover […]