Feedback for admissions offices: what did you like/dislike about the process?
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Anonymous
How do you know this, PP? |
Anonymous
| SJC- entire process cold, and paper based. For a school with so much money you'd think they'd upgrade their admissions department. |
Anonymous
Why is this not cool? I don't get it. I will definetely check it out if I was part of the admissions office. For sure. |
Anonymous
Not useful to say this without naming the school. anyway, Holton sent a package of stuff after DD's interview (I think it was) - it was like a deck of cards with different quotes from students with pictures, and maybe some other marketing trinkets. In no way did she think it meant anything other than they hoped she would apply and eventually come there, like every other student who interviews. |
Anonymous
m It's not cool because I told you what you needed to know about ME on the application. The process should be about my DC and not whatever information you think you can dig up on my professional page. I can only assume they want to see who else you are connected to for elbow rubbing purposes. Beyond ridiculous. Google my child if you want, but font Google me! |
Anonymous
What's strange is that a lot of schools ask some of the basic LinkedIn info anyway, such as college/professional school and current employer. We can argue the relevance of that information, but schools think it could matter. Why not just ask on application rather than doing linkedin search? |
Anonymous
It's so funny to me that people get offended by this. Also keep in mind they are dealing with so many applicant families that they may just want to, you know, see a picture of you so they can better remember who you are. Pretty sure if you were so connected someone already at the school would have tipped off the admissions office. Jeez. |
Anonymous
LinkdIn shows you who has viewed your profile. |
Anonymous
I can see this for the HS, but for the LS, the application is just as much about the family as it is about the kid. You should know better. Also, there are probably some parents who lie on these applications. IMHO, I'm glad to see the school do its due diligence. When a kid applies in boundary for the public school, I think it's totally OK for schools to do Google searches on parents to help ensure that you don't have kids out-of-boundary applying in. Also, don't be naive. Do you really think that you aren't Googled when ever you are sized up for whatever reason? |
Anonymous
Does not make it right or appropriate. |
Anonymous
Not always. You can set your preferences to view profiles anonymously. If you have a LinkdIn page, you should expect people are going to view it. Could be just to put a face to a name, could be donor research, could just be curiosity. In any case, if you're putting it out there on the net, expect people to view it. Otherwise, what's the point. |
Anonymous
+1000 Our admissions process was great up until DD was accepted. The FA was terrible. I think they have a low endowment and choose to disqualify our family because of it. They totally screwed up calculating our HHI and refused to explain or make the correction. I was very disappointed, ultimately we accepted elsewhere. Also, Melissa Davis is leaving at the end of the year and a parent told me that she is happy she's leaving. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+1000 agreed, and we can afford to take the time off but it got excessive. We applied to 5 schools. |
Anonymous
They are the way schools can weed out kids who are likely to have learning disabilities. That's the main benefit and purpose. |