Zenmaster and capturer-of-the-moment Rachel Crowl (Lawrence’s gifted video/photo wrangler) snapped this on a January evening just as the moon was rising over campus.
Moonrise over Lawrence
Author: Ken Anselment
Update: All documents are up to date on Voyager.
If you have applied for Regular Decision admission to Lawrence, our system is entirely up to date with all documents we have received. Please check your Voyager account to see if your application is complete (if you haven’t done so already).
If you see that something is missing, don’t fret: you have until the end of this week (February 10) to get your materials in and still be considered in this round of Regular Decision admission. For questions or a friendly “It’s on the way!” feel free to contact your Lawrence admissions counselor via our nifty counselor-o-matic.
A note to our Regular Decision applicants
Our data entry team is still hard at work matching up the thousands of documents we received in the week leading up to our Regular Decision deadline (which was, in hindsight, not too strategically placed on a Sunday).
If you’re checking your Voyager account and still see as “missing” items you know you have sent, trust yourself and the process. Your stuff is most likely here just waiting to get matched up with your application. Once we’re caught up enough to know where we stand, we’ll get in touch with you if we’re still awaiting items from you. More important, we’ll give you some time to complete your application.
In the meantime, please know that we’re happy you have applied, and hope to share good news with you in March.
Where do PhD’s get their start? (You know where this is headed…)
Lynn O’Shaughnessy, college expert, higher-ed journalist, and best-selling author of The College Solution, posed and answered that question in her blog today. Her post caught our attention, as most things do when they start like this. (Not that most things start like this.)
What schools produce the most undergraduates who end up heading off to graduate school?
The subject came up yesterday because a friend of mine was telling me about a brilliant teenager who wants to eventually get a PhD in physics. The student lives in California, but the mom wants him to apply to schools in the Midwest where she grew up.
I asked my friend if the teenager had checked out Lawrence University. [Editor’s note: Hooray!]
“Huh?”
I realize that might be your reaction, but here’s the thing – many of the schools that are feeder institutions for the nation’s PhD programs are liberal arts colleges. While most liberal arts colleges are not well-known among families with teenagers, these institutions — and their reputations — are very well known to graduate schools. Lawrence University, a liberal arts college Appleton, WI, for instance, happens to be 10th on the list among all four-year colleges and universities that produce, per capita, the most physics PhDs.
For obvious reasons, we encourage you to read more of Lynn’s post here.
Our friends at Colleges That Change Lives [@CTCLColleges] retweeted the post with an apt summary: “Worrying about college outcomes? Start at PhD and work backward to the start.”
Good suggestion.
Early Action decision letters are on their way
Stevie Wonder fans should be able to put the symbols to music.
Kudos to The Noun Project for the icons. (IHRTLUHC*)
*I hereby reaffirm the Lawrence University Honor Code.