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Andrew Flagel is the current Dean of Admissions and Associate Vice President for Enrollment Development for George Mason University.

Andrew Flagel became Dean of Admissions at George Mason University on July 10, 2001, where he also teaches in the Department of Communication, directs the Bachelor of Applied Sciences and is Executive Director of the Washington Journalism and Media Conference and the Washington Youth Summit on the Environment. Dean Flagel has presented hundreds of seminars on the college admissions process to students across the country, has been a featured speaker at the Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference, has been a featured guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal, and his quotes have appeared in recent educational stories in Newsweek, US News and World Report, and the Washington Post.

Dean Flagel was previously the Director of Admissions at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. He also served as the Director of Admissions and College Counseling for the Congressional Youth Leadership Council and as an Assistant Director of Admissions at The George Washington University. Dean Flagel has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Psychology and a Master of Arts in Education from GW, and his Ph.D. in Education from Michigan State University.

More importantly, Flagel is an avid Mason Basketball fan, and father to Joshua (Mason class of 2022!). He worked his way through graduate school as a DJ on college radio and at clubs in the D.C. area, and played the drums in a slew of fairly uncool bands (and just missed his calling as a rock star due to a profound lack of talent). He considered a number of other careers, but soon discovered that most required leaving college behind, and so began his career finding excuses to stay on campus.

Boring stuff: Dean Flagel serves on the Seal of Approval Committee for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling and spent three years as their national membership chairman. He also served on the Executive Council of the Maryland and D.C. ACT Advisory Committee, and is the Virginia representative to the National ACT Council. He was a member of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Blue Ribbon Admissions Panel, a National Advisory Board member for the National Young Leaders Conference, Chairman of the Enrollment Management Committee for the Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, and an executive board member and Chairman of the Joint Relations Committee for the Michigan Association for College Admissions Counseling. He’s also the co-chair of the Fairfax county schools southwest regional study committee and past-president of the Parent Teachers Organization at Joshua’s elementary school, but admits that he was the only one who ran for either position.