Most academic awards are awarded by the admissions office of a college, not the financial aid office.
We all hear about kids who show up with a sandwich board and parade outside the admissions office.
The essays in the book are candid and informative, transcending the motives an admissions office may have when it puts together informational viewbooks.
We all face points of inflection in our lives, and you need to show the admissions office that you have identified yours.
University of Notre Dame's own undergraduate admissions office is taking a cue from Mendoza as it seeks a new way to identify standout students.
Prospective students scouting the school are greeted in the parking lot and directed to the admissions office by a parking attendant that addresses them by name.
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My friend who works in a college admissions office offers this example: A high school kid submits a transcript pock-marked with As and Cs, while another posts solid Bs.
The admissions office uses Microsoft's Net Meeting to conduct online chat sessions that let prospective students and their parents ask college administrators questions about admissions, financial aid and housing.
They included a call to the school's admissions office to arrange a scholarship for a waitress he and Macel, his wife of 49 years, met the night before at dinner.
Talk to professors, department heads and the admissions office.
Its admissions office picks the ones who demonstrated leadership.
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By then, Radcliffe graduates were receiving diplomas signed by presidents of both colleges, a joint admissions office handled applications, and Radcliffe had delegated the administration of academic and residential life to Harvard.
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions is contacted periodically by a variety of internal and external constituencies, such as high school counselors, alumni, faculty, and members of the athletics, development and government relations offices.
This conversation offers rare access to the world of selective college admissions as it takes you inside the office at both an Ivy League university and a flagship state university.
The Department for Education and Skills said that, now the co-ordinated admissions scheme had been finalised, the Office of the Schools Adjudicator would decide whether or not schools could use those criteria in the coming year.
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The report also recommends school data on admissions to be made widely available and analysed by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) to identify any segregation.
The change, they said, had been forced on them by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator, set up in 1998 to police admissions.
Professor Les Ebdon, the new head of the Office for Fair Access (Offa), has urged universities to set themselves "challenging" admissions targets.
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