I explained this to my seven-year-old cousin once when she expressed distaste over anyone possibly enjoying horror movies, and she understood perfectly, so adults have no excuse:. Similarly, sometimes accidents happen. People have died or been injured in coaster accidents, and those accidents are pretty much always the result of human error, carelessness, laziness, or poor communication. Furthermore, if you KNOW you have a heart condition and willingly get on a ride that says it is not safe for people with heart conditions, you cannot then blame the amusement park!
What makes roller coasters safe for me? The only thing that makes a ride too much for me--my only hard limit--is extremely tall drops. The system is entirely student run and student enforced.
Legend has it this tradition dates back to Mr. First-years The entering class of students. Freshmen class. The Corner A collection of bars, restaurants and shops located on the edge of Grounds. Is the social hub at the University.
Keytaon just seems to be there when you need him. The final yard and final TD came on a pass from Armstrong to backup tight end Grant Misch, on his only target of the day. I just felt the flow of the defense. It flowed hard to one side, and I got back to the other side, and there he was. Forty-nine yards is a decent shot for a college kicker. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address.
When you are about to hit that submit button, make sure those essays sound truly, authentically like you. Labels: applications , essays. Thursday, December 03, Admission: The Musical. One of the voices of reason in the chaos that sometimes happens at College Confidential is a Brown College resident. I remember that I had taken a picture of CavDog next to Brown College sign on move in day this year and decided it was a good time to share it. Brown College is one of the residential colleges at UVa.
The residential college system differs from the traditional dorms a bit. In the dorms, all the first years live together. In the residential colleges, the class years are mixed and students often have a little more programming than the traditional dorms do. When I first came to UVa, someone insisted that Brown was for "hippies". When I questioned the label, I found the words that described the Brownies were all, in my opinion, positive: open minded, smart, diverse, quirky, creative, laid back, etc.
All nice things, right? Anyway, congrats to the new Brownies! Labels: CavDog , These kids are good. Tuesday, December 01, One month until deadline! Today is probably the deadline your counselors set for you to request transcripts and recommendations from them. I hope you'll give your teachers your requests as well. At this point, they'll probably be working on them over the holidays, so don't worry if there are outstanding school credentials on your "to do" list the first time you log into the Student Information System.
One month until deadline! Time to make a plan and get things done! Good luck with the final papers and exams that are looming, too! Labels: announcements , deadlines , recommendation letters. Monday, November 23, Submit early? Submit late? There are some rumors floating around about admission being easier on students who submit their applications early, despite the fact that we have no early decision or early action at UVa.
While I think it's smart to submit in advance of the deadline, just in case there's some sort of glitch, you shouldn't feel pressured to submit your application right now if you haven't put the finishing touches on it. There IS an advantage to early submission, but it isn't related to the admit rate, it's related to your status page.
A few days after you submit your application, you'll get an email instructing you to log into our Student Information System SIS. When you log into your SIS account, you'll see a to-do list for your application and later, one from the financial aid folks. If you and your school officials submit items early and the chances are that your supporting credentials will be checked in more quickly and you'll see changes in your to-do list. By mid-December, the amount of items arriving in our office on a daily basis skyrockets and we can't check everything in on the day it arrives.
So, you might wait weeks to see updates on your to-do list. Now, there's no reason to worry about your to-do list until the end of January, but if you're the type to stare at your to-do list and worry, see if you can get some things in early.
Please don't call our office freaking out the first time your log into the SIS and see your status page. Give us until the end of January to get everything checked in. You won't be in trouble if school forms aren't checked until a few weeks after deadline. Your part of the application is what must be submitted by the January 1st deadline.
Labels: applications , deadlines. This message has two purposes. First, to give you a few words of encouragement and second, to provide a place for asking questions about your applications. This weekend is the last weekend before the excitement of the holidays starts to hit. Next weekend, you'll either be in a turkey coma or frantically shopping to snap up some gifts during the big sales.
After that, you'll be decorating, baking, and trying to get end-of-semester projects or assignments done. This weekend is a good time to get some work done on your applications! It's not so late in the game that you'll feel rushed I hope and it's not so early that you won't be motivated to get things done.
So, log into the Common App and take care of some of those to-do list items. Now, in the comments, feel free to ask some questions. I'll do my best to reply to them. Please don't use the anonymous button. I'll reply in the comments and bold the name of the person who asked the question, so check back periodically for answers. Labels: applications , CavDog , Common App. Thursday, November 19, Arts supplements. We used the Common App's neat features to send out a reminder email to students who had started working on their applications.
The point first was about the video tutorial Common App made to help students assign recommendation writers to their applications. The second was about arts supplements. It said that those interested in major or minoring in the arts should submit arts supplements by December 1st for faculty review. The reaction of a student on College Confidential was interesting. Does this mean that I can send my supplement in later since I am technically not intending to major in music?
So, the assumption was that the deadline only applied to those who will be majoring or minoring in the arts and that other people who want to submit arts supplements don't have to abide by that deadline.
There is a small team of faculty who review arts supplements. They are looking at them with the idea that these are submitted by students who intend to be seriously involved in their departments. If your talent isn't at the level where you could major or minor in the arts or be significantly involved in arts groups when you get here, you might not want to submit an arts supplement. For example, if your arts supplement would look more like this than this , you probably don't want a professor of dance to review your work.
Don't get my wrong I think both videos are awesome, but we all know whose video will have the professor sending back notes that will add to the application file. Remember: admission officers at UVa aren't reviewing the arts supplements. The faculty from the arts departments are reviewing the arts supplements. By the way, the videos I used are just from Youtube. They aren't from UVa applications. Labels: supplements.
Wednesday, November 18, SAT freak out? This is far better than any Thriller dance. The faculty at a high school in Brooklyn put this SAT video together for their students. I've written a lot about standardized testing already. To read some of those past posts, just click on the "standardized testing" tag at the bottom of this entry.
Labels: standardized testing. Friday, November 13, There's an app for that, UVa edition. While the City of Charlottesville has a website where you can look up a bus stop number and see when the next bus will arrive, it's a little cumbersome to use on a smart phone.
I have already downloaded the app and it works beautifully! Wednesday, November 11, Let's have a chat. Labels: chats. Monday, November 09, Fall Fling The Outreach Office's annual Fall Fling open house was this past weekend. My favorite part of the event is the very beginning. A few members from the UVa gospel choir, Black Voices usually open the program nice and early at 8 AM with some very loud and very upbeat music. This year, they sang a cappella. To give you a sense of how large the choir is normally and the power with which they sing, here's someone else's video of a performance from last year.
That'll wake any crowd up! Sunday, November 08, International student chat this morning. Labels: chats , international students. Friday, November 06, International student chat this morning. Thursday, November 05, Application crunch time approaching.
This is such a bummer If you're a senior, it's kind of a lame time of the year. Applications deadlines are dotting the calendar, essays need editing or writing! A lot of what you have to do is being dictated by other people - your parents, teachers, coaches, counselors, the colleges you want to attend, etc. Keep your eye on the prize, though. Doing all this stuff is going to pay off immensely when your college search comes to an end and you're making plans to head off to a great college.
Your season of stress and anxiety is quite a bit longer than the time it takes the woman at the dog wash to clip CavDog's nails, but I thought you'd enjoy seeing him enduring his own difficult moment. Hang in there! On the other side of this is an exciting time! Labels: CavDog. Wednesday, November 04, International student chats.
The Global Student Council here has set up two chat sessions to answer questions about life at UVa for international students. They have picked times that are a bit different from our normal chat times to accommodate those of you who are in other time zones.
I'll post an update on the morning of each chat, but mark your calendars if you're interested so you don't forget. You can also check out their event listing on Facebook. All chats take place on the Office of Admission chat page. Monday, November 02, Don't forget the supplement! The Common App people give us some general stats about applications in progress. Right now, there is a big difference between the number of Common App "basic" applications that have been started and the number of Common App UVa Supplements that have been started.
There are 10, people out there who are working on the basic section, but who haven't touched the supplement yet. Just a reminder that the supplement is a required part of the application. We don't even get your Common App "basic" until your supplement is complete. Labels: Common App , supplements. Wednesday, October 21, Another week on the road. My favorite trip of the year is around the corner. I'm headed to northern Virginia. I've heard that some schools send rookie admission officers to NOVA as an initiation because of the notorious traffic and the advanced questions that get asked "up there".
I personally love my time in northern Virginia. I enjoy being asked questions about topics that are far more interesting than SAT scores and deadlines. Hearing the current rumors that are getting passed around is interesting, too. I'm going to post my schedule. Please understand that this year is a bit of a logistical challenge. Two of us used to split northern Virginia and each spend a week visiting schools.
This year, I am trying to cover the entire region in one week. There is no way I can get to even half of the schools in Loudoun, Fairfax, Arlington, and the cities. The schools I'm visiting are just the ones I was able to fit into my schedule. I wish I could get to every school. These appointments are for students who attend each of the schools below. Follow the procedure established by your Career Center if I'm visiting your school to make sure you have permission to attend.
Each year, residents living on The Lawn host a trick-or-treat event for area children. CavDog turned into CavBee when he was still a puppy to take part in the festivities. Last year, he dressed up as a lion to prowl The Lawn for kissable children a favorite past time of his. He has a costume lined up, too.
Tuesday, October 20, More UVa blog goodness! While I was at the national conference for those of us who are in the admission world, I heard a speaker talk about students' expectations.
He basically said that if other schools do something, students will expect it of you. If you manage to do that something, you aren't necessarily distinguishing yourself, but keeping current with others in the field. It was an interesting idea and I started thinking about our student blogs during the discussion that followed.
Most school have fairly formal student blogger programs. The students are usually given a schedule or goal with some sort of incentive to stay on task. Between our small staff and the prominence of students self-governance here, we don't really keep tabs on our student bloggers. We don't enforce a schedule or establish goals for them. Our students started their blogs on their own and maintain them on their own. I think it makes them write authentically and with enthusiasm.
I wouldn't want blogging to become a chore for them! Anyway, when you're looking for a break from admission talk, go read the student blogs and ask some questions over there. They're writing some wonderful posts and I'm sure they'd enjoy interacting with you. Hoo Stories A team blog written by eleven students with a range of class years AccessUVa A team blog written by thirteen students, an activity of Hoos for Open Access, a student group that promotes awareness of financial resources available for UVa students UVa Life One student's life at UVa, including ups and downs, frustrations and celebrations Transferring to Uva Hints and updates from Transfermer, an admission dean who works with transfer students UVa Today The source for news and updates from around Grounds There's a pretty comprehensive list of UVa blogs on the UVa Today website.
Labels: blogging , blogs. Monday, October 19, Thoughts after a week on the road. We had a wonderful time meeting students, parents, and counselors during our programs. A topic that came up time and again was one I thought we addressed and settled already.
However, the daily questions about it beg me to revisit the topic of Score Choice. Labels: Score Choice , standardized testing. Thursday, October 08, I love that dirty water! I'm on my way to Boston for a few days where after some time seeing friends and family, I'll join my friends from Hopkins and Northwestern for evening programs and counselor breakfasts in southern New England. Labels: travel. Wednesday, October 07, Youtube break! Just an FYI before I get to the good stuff.
I created a Class of Facebook group for applicants to use as a place to chat and ask questions. After admission decisions come out, I'll hand over administration of the group to the students. Perhaps the class council should take it over when they are elected. Okay, on to the post I link or embed Youtube videos now and then on the blog and I can't help but share some that made me laugh today.
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