WPI Alums do the Most Interesting Things

While the majority of WPI students graduate with a degree in math, science, engineering, business or another technological field, not everyone makes a career out of it. I am a good example...a civil engineering degree and I have been working in higher education for the last 15 years. Aleksandra and Adam, who are part of the admissions team here at WPI, both WPI graduates.

Aside from the thee of us you'll find lots of interesting people across the world engaged in a wide variety of careers.

But if you want to see something a bit out of the ordinary check out: http://www.vimeo.com/7067250 You'll find a few very cool videos posted by one of our alums, Ali Kabas. Ali resides in Turkey and is a professional photographer. You can google him to see some of his photography. His clients include American Express, Ritz Carlton, EMI Records and British Airways.

Feel free to share the link with friends.

Ed

Time Flies

Whether you consider time in the micro or macro sense it sure does fly!! I find it hard to believe that I am already well into my 5th admissions cycle as director of admissions here at WPI. It seems like it was just yesterday when I moved into the "big" office as the new director of admissions. A lot has happened over that time here at WPI. Thankfully almost all of it has been good:) Even in this relatively short period of time it is amazing to think about how I spend my days and how that has changed over the past few years. Yes I still read files and I still travel and recruit, but what about everything else?

Here are some of my upcoming meetings for next week:

A meeting about a new template for our blog page on the Web

Meeting with a video crew on campus to shoot a new admissions virtual tour

Signing off on a new design for our admission packets that better incorporates information on our admitted student microsite and Facebook presence

A call with College Week Live to set-up a web cam for my talk on their upcoming event

Finalizing the details of a new Global Scholars program and discussing how to get the word out about the program

Now if I had written down this list of meetings 5 years ago, and shared it with a colleague, half of the meetings wouldn't have made any sense....the topic areas barely existed. I guess that's why time flies in admissions...things are always new and exciting.

Time in the micro sense? We are open until 3PM today and I had 4 or 5 projects I was hoping to wrap-up in between our presentations....other than this post and meeting with families not much got done....time flies!!

Ed

New Blogs

With all of our student bloggers graduating last year we reached out to find some new students to share their WPI experiences with you. We have 5 new student bloggers and a new home page for the student bloggers: http://wp.wpi.edu/admissions/.

I hope you'll check it out. We'll be making several enhancements to the web page over the next couple of weeks, but enjoy the posts:)

Ed

College Fairs

In addition to the 600 or so high schools we will visit, the 15 evening information sessions we are offering, and the close to 50 nights of interviews planned around the globe, WPI will be represented at about 200 college fairs around the world.

Even in this day of high tech gadgets and on-line applications college fairs are still they way a high percentage of our students learn more about WPI and all we offer. It's a great opportunity to ask some of your questions face to face and to meet one of the admissions staff and/or a current student and alum. Will we be at your local college fair? Check out our fall listing of college fairs that went live earlier today.

Ed

New Blogs

If you are wondering what's happened to our student bloggers...wait no more. With all of our bloggers graduating last spring there's been a bit of a lull in the student voice over the summer. We'll have some new blogs up next week, along with a nice new look for the student blog page.

Visit www.admissions.wpi.edu/blogs.html next week when we are up and running!!

Ed

WPI Web Application

The WPI application went live earlier today...sorry for the delay.

Apply away!

Ed

Travel Kicks Off and an Application Delay

I hope everyone enjoys a wonderful holiday weekend as the unofficial end to summer is upon us
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The end of summer means the beginning to the college admissions recruitment season...things got kicked off today as Bonnie Hall headed to a program at the Academy of the Pacific Rim in Boston. Michelle and Karen will both being heading to international locations over the weekend; Latin America and India respectively. It promises to be a busy fall and we hope to see many prospective students on the road.

Interest in WPI remains very high with an increase of visitors over the summer and more than 17,500 students requesting information from WPI so far this year. We already have over a dozen applications in hand, with the first one coming in in mid-August. If you are one of the early birds hang in there...no decisions will mail until mid-December.

Speaking of applications, the Common Application and the Universal Application are up and running, however the WPI on-line application won't go live until next week. We had hoped to be live in August, however we've made substantial improvements to the application and testing has taken a bit longer than anticipated. If you prefer to use our application, hang in there...we'll be up and running by the end of next week...I promise:)

Enjoy the great weather and hope to see you at WPI soon!!

Ed