Author: Ken Anselment

Remember us?

It has been an awfully long time since our last post, which I believe is sinful of a cardinal order in the blog world.

(We have an excuse. Really. Honestly. It’s legit.)

We’ve been in admission committee pretty solidly for the past few weeks, coming up occasionally for air to meet and greet the caravan of visitors coming to campus. We’re pretty much done with the first part, but won’t be done (and we’re happy not to be done) with the second part till early May.

So, in other words, sorry to have been gone so long. For our next few blog posts, we’ll provide some answers to those “Now that I’ve been admitted, what happens next?” questions.

For starters, feel free to meet some of your classmates on the Facebook*: Lawrence University Class of 2016

* definitive article, “the,” applied ironically to make the author appear out of touch with nifty social media

 

 

 

Dearest Lawrence, When will I hear about my admission decision?

Great question. We get it quite often at this time of year.

We’re currently signing all of our decision letters. (If you must know, I’m actually typing this while reaching over a pile of decision letters to do so.)

Our plan is to have these decisions in the mail by the end of this week and into your hands next week.

Feel free to get in touch with your Lawrence admissions counselor with questions about your status.

 

Boulder, Honolulu, Ann Arbor… Appleton?

Those of us who live in Appleton weren’t surprised by the news, but those outside this magical land might be. Lawrence University’s hometown was recently named in the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index as one of the top ten cities in the country for health and well-being. Not too shabby, when you consider the composition of the top ten:

  1. Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  2. Charlottesville, Virginia
  3. Ann Arbor, Michigan
  4. Provo-Orem, Utah
  5. Boulder, Colorado
  6. Honolulu, Hawaii
  7. Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, California
  8. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California
  9. Fort Collins-Loveland, Colorado
  10. Appleton, Wisconsin (woot!)

By the way, if you’re good at detecting patterns, you should be able to guess what these metro areas all have in common, besides sharing space on the list. (If you’re good at detecting shameless invitations to post comments on a blog site, you’ll recognize the previous statement for what it is.)

Two critical steps high school seniors who signed the Wisconsin Covenant

We are passing along this message about the Wisconsin Covenant from our friends at the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. High school seniors who signed the Covenant can receive up to $10,000 in grants for postsecondary education if they act quickly and complete the following two steps by April 1:

For what it’s worth, we highly recommend that students file these forms well before April 1, in order to be eligible to receive other state funds, like the Wisconsin Tuition Grant (for those attending Wisconsin’s private colleges) or the Wisconsin Higher Education Grant (for those attending Wisconsin’s public colleges).

If you received President Beck’s letter to parents about life after Lawrence…

…then you might want to watch this video (it’s a touch long at 6 min) which has current Lawrence students and Lawrence alumni talking about their experience with LU-R1, Lawrence University’s unique partnership with Research 1 institutions.

Thanks to Marti Gillespie and Rick Peterson, two of our colleagues in the Office of Strategic Communication, for putting this together.