Admissions officers fear the tech

UNlike NACAC, Zinch’s survey found that no schools were reviewing social networking sites/using search engines in the admissions process.

The week before May 1 – stress and marketing

So if you received an admission letter from me, this would be a great time to go ahead and submit your enrollment confirmation.

Size doesn’t really matter (yes, I said it).

the idea that the volume of students attending a school is the best indicator of options or attention is entirely misleading

Shameless Plug: Best Admitted Student Event – EVER – and Mason declared GREATEST UNIVERSITY ON EARTH

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 [...]

Is it unethical to double deposit?

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)?

The Importance of Senior Year

…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.

Shameless Plug: Mason Speech Team number 2 in nation

Now the team has been ranked the 2nd best in the nation . Yeah, they’re just that good.

Energy drinks fuel spring admissions frenzy

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.

Shameless Plug: Mason baseball hottest in the nation

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!), [...]