Making your app stand out: part II
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This document outlines the process of how college applications are reviewed and decided in admissions offices. It emphasizes the importance of making a strong impression on the assigned admissions officer to increase the chances of acceptance. Additionally, it encourages potential applicants to seek consultation to enhance their application strategies.
Making your app stand out: part II
- 1. ingeniusprep.com | The smart way to get in
- 2. Making your application stand out – Part II
- 3. What We’ll Cover in This Lesson Background – Data, Numbers and the Common Application How Applications are Reviewed, Debated, and Decided Standing Out: Find Your “Diverse Factors” Using an Application Persona
- 4. In the Admissions Office How Applications are Processed and Reviewed You Submit Your Application The Admissions office adds it to their pile of thousands of applications The applications are separated, each admissions officer get’s a pile of applications That admissions officer reviews all of the applications in their pile, and selects a handful of students they would like to accept All the admissions officers meet as a committee and debate whether to admit selected applicants
- 5. In the Admissions Office How Applications are Processed and Reviewed Bottom Line – If you don’t make an impression on the admissions officer assigned to your file, he/she will not advocate for you, and you will not be admitted
- 6. Contact us now for your consultation! Website: www.InGeniusPrep.com Email: Info@ingeniusprep.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/ingeniusprep Twitter: @ingeniusprep
Editor's Notes
- #2: Hello and Welcome, My name is Dana Brown, I am an admissions counselor at InGenius Prep. Before working with InGenius, I served as the former associate director of admissions at Cornell University and Williams College. During that time I reviewed tens of thousands of applications, and today I’m going to give you a close look at how the admissions process actually works, how admissions decisions are made, and how you can distinguish yourself from the thousands of other college applicants.
- #4: Today we will discuss: the essential background information regarding applications to U.S. Colleges and the Common app The actual process by which applications are reviewed, debated over, and chosen for admission or rejection The importance of diversity and identifying those factors which make you diverse And the application persona – something which is essential if you want admissions officers to remember you, advocate for you, and ultimately, accept you