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« Previous Article | June 2009 Table of Contents | Next Article » How Do Admissions Officers Feel About This Past Spring?June 2009Hard as it is to anxiously await a decision on your applications, it is no easier to be the one responsible for those decisions. Here are some thoughts on the subject by Angel Perez, Director of Admissions at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA: I've been talking to a lot of angry people this week. They yell; I listen patiently. They cry; I empathize. The pain of not getting into the college of your dreams is unlike any other. Students call here to Pitzer College to find out what they could have done differently. Parents call to ask us to reconsider. It's hard to justify to someone who has just been "denied" the college of their dreams that although they've done everything right, we just did not have enough seats in the class. What these families don't see is the amount of emotion that admissions officers across the country pour into making these decisions. For more… « Previous Article | June 2009 Table of Contents | Next Article » |
