Category: Admissions Process

So last night we had this reverse radio call-in show…

Last night, for students who had not yet finalized their college plans, we hosted Lawrence’s first “Reverse Radio Call-In Show” using some technology that involves robo-calling. (That we did so during an election cycle gave us pause, knowing that many households still attached to landlines are receiving calls from various and sundry political candidates).

On the phone with me were Dean of Student Affairs, Nancy Truesdell, and Dean of the Conservatory, Brian Pertl. They answered questions from students calling in from coast to coast. Seriously. We had students from Boston and students from Alaska–and many places in between–on the line last night.

If you have half an hour to burn, you can listen to a recording of the phonecast here (skip past the first 30 seconds unless you like hearing a lot of back chatter). It works well if you’re looking for answers to questions about student life (including a great question about starting a formal group house dedicated to “slow-food cooking”) and life in the Conservatory of Music. It also works well if you’re having a hard time sleeping and you find the dulcet tones of university administrators to have a soporific effect.

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.

 

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).

About those scholarship amounts…

If you have been a close reader of our website, you may be familiar with our array of academic scholarships and their amounts. Furthermore, if you have received one of those scholarships from us, you may have noticed that the dollar amounts have changed… for the better.

Don’t worry. It’s not a test. The amount is correct. We just haven’t changed the website yet.

If you have not received a scholarship from Lawrence, you may be disappointed, but please do not despair. Lawrence devotes much more of its institutional gift aid toward need-based financial aid. To that end, we strongly encourage you to file for financial aid, so we can explore using more tools to make a Lawrence education more accessible.

And when it comes to filing for financial aid and applying for outside scholarships, we encourage everyone to adopt the Wayne Gretzky philosophy: “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”

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