“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 […]
Is That a Good School?
Listen to the podcast: Spreaker | Spotify | Apple Podcasts On Sunday after lunch, I was watching college football highlights, when the back-and-forth battle in Happy Valley between the University of Illinois and Penn State came on. At the time, my 10-year-old daughter was stretching on the living room floor next to me (something I […]
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 […]
Launching Your College Application
This week we welcome the Director of Communications for Enrollment Management, Becky Tankersley, to the blog. In early September, you may have noticed a change in Georgia Tech’s Undergraduate Admission website. After (many!) months of talking, planning, building, and testing, the new admission website was ready for action! From a user’s perspective, the new website […]
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 […]