{"id":3324,"date":"2012-04-06T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T20:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2012-04-06T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T20:09:30","slug":"april-in-the-admissions-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/2012\/04\/06\/april-in-the-admissions-office\/","title":{"rendered":"April in the Admissions Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring has finally arrived on campus, and here in the Admissions Office we’re excited about the Class of 2016 and what the coming weeks will bring. \u00a0It\u2019s been a week since we mailed decisions, and the action never seems to end around here.\u00a0 So what do we do when we\u2019re not reading applications?\u00a0\u00a0 Good question!\u00a0 The month of April is when we emerge from hibernation and exchange reading and committee meetings for new projects.\u00a0 A few of the things we\u2019ve been up to:<\/p>\n

Our colleagues in the Financial Aid Office<\/a> are working 8am-8pm daily with families to calculate financial aid awards and help with questions.\u00a0 We want to do everything we can to make a Harvard education affordable for families, and we\u2019re really proud of the personal attention and care we put into financial aid for admitted students.<\/p>\n

Our travel coordinators are working to organize presentations all over the US next month with our Exploring College Options Program, a travel consortium we participate in with great colleagues from Duke University, Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University.\u00a0 Check out the Harvard in Your Hometown<\/a> page to learn of upcoming presentations near you next month.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also been hard at work reaching out to students and families and planning for our Visitas Program for admitted students later this month.\u00a0 April is one of my favorite months in the admissions cycle because it\u2019s the time when we work most closely with undergraduates.\u00a0\u00a0 The undergrads can\u2019t wait to welcome the Class of 2016 to campus and have been hard at work planning well over 100 events for the weekend and signing up to be student hosts.\u00a0 Last weekend, student representatives of the Undergraduate Admissions Council (UAC<\/a>), the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP)<\/a> , and the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI)<\/a>\u00a0 programs got together for our biannual Call-A-Thon to reach out and congratulate our admitted students.\u00a0 All of our undergraduate volunteers had a blast eating pizza and having great conversations with students and families.\u00a0 Some Call-A-Thon photos below!<\/p>\n

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Mike giving instructions over pizza from Bertucci's-- yum!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gathering for call assignments<\/p><\/div>\n

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Happy callers! (and a background shoutout to Jeremy Lin!)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Big smiles and much congratulations to the Class of 2016!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stay tuned for lots of great stuff from our bloggers in coming weeks, who will be talking about some of their favorite aspects of campus life.\u00a0 If you have any requests of topics to cover, let us know in the comments section.\u00a0 And if you haven\u2019t had a chance to see Shaun\u2019s video What is Harvard Like<\/a><\/strong> yet, check it out!<\/p>\n

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Spring has finally arrived on campus, and here in the Admissions Office we’re excited about the Class of 2016 and what the coming weeks will bring. \u00a0It\u2019s been a week since we mailed decisions, and the action never seems to end around here.\u00a0 So what do we do when we\u2019re not reading applications?\u00a0\u00a0 Good question!\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29776],"tags":[37298,1377,64706,13057,64709,64708,64705,64707],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-admissions-office","tag-admissions","tag-financial-aid","tag-harvard-financial-aid-initiative","tag-outreach","tag-recruitment-travel","tag-student-experience","tag-undergraduate-admissions-council","tag-undergraduate-minority-recruitment-program"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}