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- Feature: Bored to Tears? We Should Listen!
- The Editor's View: Goal Setting
- Connections: Getting Credit When It's Due
- The Emotional Edge: Promoting Resilience
- Parent's Platform: The College Visit: One Family's Story
- Technology Matters: Learning Online: A Viable Alternative for Gifted and Talented Students
- Product Tips: Reach for the Stars
- Currents: Admissions Advantage
- Currents: Staying Involved
- Currents: Summer Reading for Parents
Currents
Admissions Advantage
Volume 4 / Issue 4 / Summer 2004
A student’s demonstrated interest in a college is an increasingly important consideration in admissions decisions. The Chronicle of Higher Education, citing a recent survey of almost 600 colleges by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, reports that 56 percent of these colleges consider demonstrated interest in admissions decisions; 36 percent regard it as having “considerable” or “moderate” importance (of these schools, 16 percent were highly selective colleges); and only 26 percent deemed it of “limited” importance in decisions.
In addition, students who do not follow up on their applications and personally contact admissions officers are often passed over in favor of similarly qualified applicants who do make contact. The officers assume that students who do not touch base are not as interested and probably will not accept an offer of admission.TrackBack
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