Pat keeps up with the appointments, phone calls, and visitors -- and still finds time to patiently teach the rest of us how to enter documents into the new computer system. It's truly awe-inspiring.
Katie, Simeon, and Tum hard at work.
Even with electronic application submissions, we still receive huge quantities of paper documents. Many paper documents = many envelopes to recycle.
Even with all the frustrations of early January -- navigating the new computer system, catching up on e-mail, placing phone calls to tech support -- it's impossible not to get caught up in the possibility of it all. I find myself peeking at transcripts and reading recommendations as I'm supposed to be tracking -- I'm eager to just get on with it already and read files! I can't wait to see what awaits in the Class of 2016.
"It's impossible not to get caught up in the possibility of it all," - thank you, I'm so grateful to see those words. As a parent who has watched her son struggle to complete these applications, and particularly, the essays, it means so much that you feel that way. They put so much into it, along with their dreams and hopes, and I was worried that some jaded officials would never look at it all, or only be concerned about a formula or quota. I don't know how other colleges do it, and even if my son doesn't make it in to HMC - thank you for renewing my belief in higher education and that admissions officers are there because they love what they do, and that the Class of 2016 will begin their college journeys at a place where they find kindred spirits.
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