Admissions

To All Faculty and Staff:

The time is approaching for our annual celebration of the role our entire community plays in providing a welcoming environment to our prospective students and their families.

Annual Admissions & Financial Aid Gratitude Cookout

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 

Wriston Amphitheater  (rain date Wed, June 6)

11:30am-1:00 pm

Our friends in Bon Appetit need a ballpark count by Wednesday, May 30 at noon.  RSVP to Lynn Van Zeeland at ext. 6506 or lynn.vanzeeland@lawrence.edu  We hope you can join us to celebrate our work together.

We are assembling another one of those nifty “by the numbers” sheets, so please send Lynn any fun facts that represent your area (e.g., # of calls to the Help Desk; # of Sriracha bottles downed in Andrew Commons, etc.).

Thank you for all you do,

Ken Anselment

Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid

The worst snowstorm in decades brought out the best of the Lawrence community earlier this week.

Your warmth and hustle metaphorically melted 21+ inches of snow to create a warm and welcoming environment for about 100 visitors who, themselves, braved nasty (and, at times dangerous) conditions to come from places like California, New Mexico, Texas, Chile, Japan, and—of course—the upper Midwest to experience Lawrence before they make their final college decisions by May 1.

Those students and their families left Lawrence with evidence that this is a community that hustles and cares in extraordinary ways:

You plowed and shoveled back-straining snow to clear the lots and paths around campus…

You prepared food on the fly and showered our guests with cookies (so many cookies)…

With classes cancelled Monday—effectively wiping out an entire day of open house programming—you answered our 11th-hour call for volunteers to come in impromptu mock classes and presentations…

You opened your house for an improvised reception that turned into a 60-person pizza party. (I’m looking at you, Mark Burstein and David Calle)…

You got out of bed early to trudge through the snow and play fiddle music to greet our guests at 8:30 Monday morning…

Colleges like to talk about their warm, welcoming, and caring communities—but on Sunday and Monday, Lawrence University showed it in ways our visitors (and I) will never forget.

Thank you doesn’t seem like enough, but—on behalf of your friends on the admissions & financial aid team—I think we know how George Bailey feels at the end of It’s a Wonderful Life when the entire town comes together to help him in his time of greatest need.

Your generosity is extraordinary.

You are the Lawrence difference.

Ken Anselment
Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid

On Friday, February 23 the admissions office will host LUX – Lawrence University Experience – an open house for applicants and their families.  If you see our guests on campus, please make them feel welcome!  Many of them will be Lawrentians in the fall.  If you’re able to park somewhere other than the lots closest to Warch, we’d greatly appreciate that as well.

Special thanks to all of the staff who will be doing presentations, providing a great lunch and making our facilities welcoming for this important event.

Thursday, June 1 (Rain date Thursday, June 8)

Walkway between Wriston and Memorial Hall

11:30am-1:00pm

Bon Appetit needs a ballpark count by Tuesday, May 30 at 8am.  RSVP to Lynn Van Zeeland at ext. 6506 or lynn.vanzeeland@lawrence.edu.  We hope you can join us to celebrate another great recruitment year.

Thank you for all you do,
Ken Anselment
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid

PS: We hope to put together another one of those nifty “by the numbers” sheets, so please send Lynn any fun facts that represent your area (e.g., number of calls the Help Desk answered; how many bottles of Sriracha Sauce have been downed in Andrew Commons, etc.).

As the Admissions office continues to receive more and more visits from prospective students, and given the limitations of our student tour guiding staff, we are no longer able to offer personalized tours to every candidate visiting Lawrence on a job interview. Rather, we would like to invite departments to schedule their candidates on one of our regularly scheduled campus tours, which can be done by e-mailing Kathy Hogan. Our tour schedule is below for reference.

We will continue to schedule personalized tours for senior staff candidates only (President, Provost, etc.), which can also be scheduled through Kathy.

For questions, please contact Jen England at x6840.

Thank you for your continued support!

Monday, Wednesday, Friday

• 9:50-11:00am
• 11:10-12:20pm
• 1:50-3:00pm
• 3:10-4:20pm

Tuesday, Thursday

• 9:50-11:00am
• 11:10-12:20pm
• 2:30-3:40pm

On Thursday night, Feb. 23 and Friday, Feb. 24, we will welcome dozens of applied and accepted students to Lawrence for our first admitted student open house of the year. We have renamed the program LUX, where we will be shining a light on the Lawrence University experience. (We trust families will not confuse this with our library friends’ search tool of the same name.)

This February program is an addition to our programming this year. We will still offer our two programs in April (9–10 and 23–24). For students who applied and were admitted through one of our Early Action rounds, we are offering this program to capitalize on peak interest at the right time, rather than making them wait till April for “the good stuff.”

For more about the program, please visit the LUX page.

Note to faculty and coaches: In previous open houses, we have encouraged your attendance at lunch to meet and mingle with families. We have changed up the programming, inviting local alumni to mix and mingle at lunch, so you need not feel obliged to attend lunch. (We will not turn you away, however, if you do choose to attend.)

The Next Generation Workshop is designed to help secondary school sophomores and juniors and their parents or grandparents make informed decisions and navigate the college search and application process.

Lawrence alumni, faculty and staff who have children and grandchildren who are sophomores and juniors in high school are invited to attend.

Nov. 6 & 7

The schedule is available here.

Register here.

Cost: $50 for each student and one guest; $25 for each additional guest. Please direct registration questions to Jaclyn Charais or Amanda Bradley.