Thom November 11th, 2009
Today we debuted our newly structured and redesigned website to our prospective students families and high school partners. Features of the new site include:
- A streamlined and dramatically simplified structure where all of the admissions/financial aid/Vanderbilt information you’ve asked for is one click away including a “find your major” drop down. No more having to crawl through dozens of websites just to find your major.
- A media player where to watch video interviews from Vanderbilt students and faculty.
- An Admissions Quick Guide that puts 100% of our application process into simple steps without any buzz words or admissions jargon.
- A social media toolbar that lets you take Vandy with you, either through Facebook, Twitter, Youtube or by loading our RSS feed into your feed reader.
- Easily share information with your friends through our “Share this Page” section.
Have a great Wednesday blogland!
Thom November 6th, 2009
Eran Egozy, co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Harmonix Music Systems which develops the interactive music video game Rock Band will speak 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Vanderbilt’s Student Life Center. The talk will address creativity in leadership and the cultural impact of the many wildy popular interactive music games on the marketplace today. The talk is a component of Vanderbilt’s Creative Campus initiative meant to infuse innovative thinking and artisitic creation into everyday campus life at Vanderbilt and is sponsored by VU’s Curb Center. Following the talk will be a Rock Band competition open to all students, faculty, and staff. VU OUA is considering an entry . . . oh yes. Rock on.
In the spirit of creativity, it seems as though someone placed a costume mask on the Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt statue yesterday. It is not that uncommon to find various articles of clothing on the big guy from time to time. Have a great Fall weekend.
Thom October 31st, 2009
Happy Halloween! For those of you applying for early decision round 1 you know that November 1st is the application deadline. Here are a couple of quick reminders:
- Yes we are aware that 11/1 falls on a Sunday, which means that the following business day will be the de facto deadline. In this case, Monday November 2nd is the deadline.
- It is a postmarked deadline for your application. Not all of your materials need to be sent together, nor do they all have the be received by Monday. Your application needs to be submitted on the Common App’s website or postmarked in the mail by Monday.
- Remember that once you submit your common application online to Vanderbilt, your app for Vanderbilt is locked and cannot be changed. Take your time and make sure everything is correct. My advice - print the sucker out and proof it. You read words on paper slower than you read on a computer screen. Which is why someone once turned in an essay that mentioned that the applicant was “the writting editor for the school newspaper.” Slow down there speedy.
Our officers are already off and reading applications this weekend, and we’re collectively excited to get off the road. Good luck to everybody!
P.S. Be sure to check out our Admissions website’s brand new look to be unveiled later this coming week!
Thom September 29th, 2009
The New York Times draws attention to the important topic of economic diversity on American college campuses. U. S. News and World Report’s ranking of top colleges by economic diversity is based on the percentage of undergraduates eligible for federal Pell grants. While this is only one way to measure economic diversity, it is somewhat the nationally accepted measure.
I thought I’d share the link, enjoy: NY Times > Economix Blog > Poor Students at Rich Colleges
Thom September 23rd, 2009
Building Thing One: A new space for visiting prospective students and families
Renovation to the Historic Old Gym continues. We now see where the new entrance to our new visitor space will be. They are also beginning the restoration of the tall windows that used to be on the southern side of the building. Exciting Stuff.
Building Thing Two: A new Website
Be on the lookout in November for a new Admissions website. Our hope with the new site is to create an easier site for visitors to find answers to their questions and be connected to Vanderbilt web media and networks. We’d love to hear your wish list items in our comments section.
Building Thing Three: iPhone App
We’ve started an exciting series of conversations with the Vanderbilt Computer Society, a Vanderbilt organization composed mostly of computer science and engineering students about building our office an app for iPhones (and potentially for Blackberry and Google’s Android phone). We hope to roll something out in the Spring of this academic year. We’re in the early stages of development, so we would love to hear your wish list for the app in the comments section.
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