Deadline Reminder: October 10 for spring 2020 enrollment
Prospective applicants for January 2020 enrollment: do I correctly assume that you’re in the final stages of putting together your application?
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General Admissions News
What’s happening now in the Admissions Office.
Admissions Visit Days
We always look forward to prospective students visiting us at Fletcher, particularly during the semester when guests can get a good sense of what a typical day here is like. I’ll put in a plug for the several “Visit Days” we have schedule throughout the fall, which provide a semi-structured way to spend an informative day at Fletcher.
Read MoreEvents!
It’s hard to imagine more of a toe-dipping into the admissions travel season than attending a fair here in town for my first recruitment event of the fall. That’s how the schedule worked out this year, though, and so Monday night I headed over to Boston University for the Idealist grad fair, always a pretty enormous event, given the number of universities in the Boston area.
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Odds and ends: Justice Sotomayor at Tufts, Mapping Futures, and student activities at Fletcher
Lots going on this week, as is typical with students settled in to classes and the semester in full swing. Here’s a roundup of some of the highlights.
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Spring enrollment application deadline
Things are happening quickly around here, friends. Talk of application deadlines around this time of year may seem a bit of lighthearted japery, but don’t get caught napping. Take a look at the calendar, and note that it’s already mid-September. For those interested in January 2020 enrollment at Fletcher, the clock is ticking. October 10, one short month away, is the deadline for submitting your application!
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Orientation!
Today is one of the most fun days of the admissions year – the start of orientation! With a few exceptions, it’s the first time we’ll meet our new students face-to-face, after having spent the better part of a year working with them virtually as prospective/admitted/enrolled students. Our friends in the Registrar run the arrival and check-in portion of the day, though we eagerly staff the welcome tables for the opportunity to put faces to names with which we’ve been working on paper for the better part of the past year. My guess is that it can sometimes be a bit surreal for students to arrive at Fletcher for the first time, and be greeted by one of us as if they’re a long-lost relative. What can I say? We’re excited to have our new students here.
Read MoreFall travels coming into focus
While it’s hard to pin down an objectively “busiest” season of the admissions year, the fall months often feel the “buzziest,” if I may invent a term. More than any other season, fall is defined by juggling the most simultaneous tasks, and sometimes makes me feel like my head is spinning. Fletcher students are back on campus, prospective students are visiting and interviewing, and applications are starting to roll in. On top of all that, recruitment travel, a primary driver of the “buzz,” is at its high point.
Read MoreOnline application down for maintenance – please pardon our dust
I thought it would be worth giving readers a heads-up that the online application for admission will soon go offline for a few weeks for some annual updating and maintenance.
Read MoreApplication news – GRE/GMAT scores are now optional
I’m happy to relay an important update for those planning to submit applications during the upcoming admissions cycle: GRE and GMAT scores are now optional for all Fletcher degree programs.
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Summer outreach
I get asked a lot if summertime in admissions is a slow season, with most students and faculty spending the summer months away from Fletcher. It’s certainly much quieter around the place, but overall it’s just as busy for us as the academic year, just differently busy. We’ve always done the odd recruitment event in the summer, but in recent years it’s really picked up, and I can usually count on attending at least three or four significant events per summer.
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