College admissions: Tailored to fit

The college evaluation, application and admissions process has many layers. One layer in the process is finding a the college that is tailored to fit you.

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Many corporations, government organizations, charitable organizations, private investors and alumni are willing to invest in colleges and universities that can attract individuals like you who will eventually contribute to educational system revenue, future research, products, or become the employees and leaders they need. As such, one of your objectives is to learn about the market (potential colleges and universities) that may wish to admit you because you address their interests.

Aside from basic college information (e.g., size, majors, campus life, location, and cost), pursue answers to the following questions.

1. What are the objectives of their Admissions Committees?
2. What do their recent freshman class profiles look like?
3. What are the colleges' recent histories regarding meeting their admissions distribution objectives (i.e., age, gender, ethnicity, home of origin, skills, academic/athletic interests, etc.)?
4. Are admissions profiles as expected or somewhat off-target recently? If misaligned, will future strategies to bring their statistics back in line possibly affect your opportunities?
5. What are their recent matriculation yield trends (of all students offered letters of acceptance, the percentage of students that matriculate)?
6. Do any of their Departments have specific recruitment needs and objectives?

• Academics.
• Fine and Performance Arts.
• Athletics.

7. Is major public funding of scholastic arts funding favoring their programs?
8. How are their teams and individual athletes performing at national and international levels?
9. How are the media trends (famous and infamous) concerning the institution and their graduates?
10. Are you likely to enhance their 4-year graduation rates?

There are generic qualities portrayed by all competitive candidates. However, as stated by Nancy Griesemer, DC College Admissions Examiner, ?...every college sets its own priorities within the framework of individual admissions philosophies.? As such, find as much as is possible about the institutions and their priorities. These data will help locate institutions that are tailored to fit, as well as find the schools that need students like you.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/college-admissions-tailored-to-fit

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