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July 17, 2007
Summertime
Been slightly delinquent with updates, the lost sleep our new family edition is destroying brain cells and I am still catching up from my time away from work.
Hopefully all college bound high school seniors have already visited their top choice school this spring or earlier. However, many students have not and there are too many places to visit even for the most ambitious of families. Summertime is a great time for rising seniors to visit those colleges that they aren’t sure about and rising juniors to get a start on their college search.
Here are two very good articles that I recommend EVERY family read before they take off on that college tour of 10 colleges in 5 days – which I DON’T recommend. Best advice- have fun, plan and call ahead, take notes, compromise and smile!!!!!!
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07156/791473-298.stm
http://www.newsday.com/travel/am-kids0713,0,252771,print.story?coll=ny-travel-headlines
Posted by Chris Boehm at 9:53 AM | Comments (0)
July 16, 2007
Summer Open House
Tell me another college or university where the vice president of enrollment makes cotton-candy at an open house. Sunday was our summer open house, always a fun day, little too humid, but overall a lot fun. How can you not have fun when snow cones, cotton-candy and popcorn are being served.
Over 200 families got to mingle and eat lunch with faculty, view all the facilities changes on campus (New Schumo Center and the renovations to Selwyn Pond) and hear about the new science building and pending renovations to the campus center. There are exciting things happening at Albright and that makes the job of the admission office exciting. When admission professional have exciting news to relay they have a lot of fun relaying that message. This energy can be contagious.
So if you were unable to visit on Sunday I encourage you to find out what all the excitement if about by calling to schedule a visit, or call or email an admission counselor and feel the energy from them. Next open houses are in October and November, but individual visits are available Monday through Saturday. Seniors, juniors, sophomores, even freshman are welcome. The sooner we can create a relationship with a prospective student the more information we can exchange.
See you on campus soon!!!!!!!
Posted by Chris Boehm at 10:49 AM | Comments (0)