Posted on April 29, 2009 by deanflagel
UNlike NACAC, Zinch’s survey found that no schools were reviewing social networking sites/using search engines in the admissions process.
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Posted on April 25, 2009 by deanflagel
So if you received an admission letter from me, this would be a great time to go ahead and submit your enrollment confirmation.
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Posted on April 23, 2009 by deanflagel
the idea that the volume of students attending a school is the best indicator of options or attention is entirely misleading
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Posted on April 22, 2009 by deanflagel
Finally have a chance to fill you in on the admitted student event we held on Sunday. We have about 1700 students in attendance – with their families that brought us to shy of 4,000, our largest admissions event ever. A massive distinction for the Mason events is the spectacular support we get from faculty [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2009 by deanflagel
How about all the colleges and universities decide that double depositing is NOT unethical, in fact it’s so acceptable we’d prefer you TELL US!!! I know, this sounds crazy – I mean, who wants to inject HONESTY into a system that’s working SO WELL (as the sarcasm drips from my keyboard)?
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Posted on April 10, 2009 by deanflagel
…even if we admit you, we still want to see your final grades. In most cases we only act on a pretty severe drop in grades, but there are exceptions.
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Posted on April 9, 2009 by deanflagel
Now the team has been ranked the 2nd best in the nation . Yeah, they’re just that good.
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by deanflagel
Fortunately my student employees have been sharing their diet secrets for multi-tasking, which appear to consist of eating whatever you want while drinking a steady stream of Redbull. While I realize this runs any number of health risks, I gain the beneficial side effect of no longer needing (or being able to) sleep.
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Posted on April 6, 2009 by deanflagel
In case your tired of hearing Mason mentioned in reference to basketball (fun trivia – Mason beat both of the teams in the finals, UNC and Michigan State – on our way to the Final Four in 2006, along with UConn from this years Final Four. Maybe that’s why our name kept popping up!), you [...]
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