ICYMI: Application Boot Camp (and an update)

Way back in the August archives lives a week-long series that Christine and I put together to help you, dear applicant, with your application.  Consult our Application Boot Camp for tips on arranging supportive recommendations, writing strong essays, test scores and transcripts, and more!

I also wanted to pause for just a minute to tell you what’s happening around the Admissions Office.  Our first batch of applications for 2015 is trickling in, with the deadline for January enrollment coming up next Wednesday, October 15.  This will be our first opportunity to work with our new online application review system (exciting and nerve-racking in equal amounts).  We’re glad that the first batch of applications we’ll read on the new system is small enough to allow us to iron out some wrinkles.

Our travel season is in high gear, and it’s a rare day when every member of the staff is in the office.  We’ve already covered DC, Toronto, New York, the Pacific Northwest, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.  Chicago, Minneapolis, San Diego, San Francisco, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, and other locations are still in front of us.  Having our application readers on the road complicates the January admissions process, but we always get everything done in time for admitted students to organize themselves to arrive here in mid-January.

Our student interviewers are getting into the swing of things, and we’ll soon be selecting students to serve on the Admissions Committee.  We also called on our Admissions Ambassadors to join visitors for lunch on Monday, during our Visit Day.

All in all, we’re enjoying hosting visitors at Fletcher, meeting prospective applicants on the road, and putting our systems together to make the admissions process run smoothly for everyone.