About this webinar
Selective colleges see thousands of applicants with excellent grades, rigorous courses and impressive activities. Yet some applications stay with admissions officers long after they’ve finished reading them. In this panel discussion, we will unpack what makes a student memorable and how seemingly separate pieces of an application can come together to create a distinctive picture of who that student is.
Families will learn:
- What admissions officers notice beyond grades and test scores
- How intellectual interests, activities and personal qualities shape an applicant’s profile
- Why depth and consistency can matter more than simply doing more
- How essays and recommendations reveal qualities that aren’t visible elsewhere
- What makes an application feel cohesive, authentic and memorable
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Presented by
Kelly
Kelly received a BA from UCSB, an M.Ed. from UCLA, and an Ed.D. from UC Davis. Kelly worked in student affairs and academic advising at Cal Poly SLO, UCSF, and Stanford before working in admissions at UC Berkeley for five years.
Sandy
Sandy holds a BA from St. Lawrence University and MA from Binghamton University. He has more than 25 years of admissions experience at several colleges, most recently at Cornell University, where he also directed the transfer admissions program in CALS.
Marc Zawel
Marc is the author of Untangling the Ivy League, a best-selling guidebook on the Ancient Eight. He earned a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Marc chaired the admissions ambassadors at Cornell and the admissions advisory board at UNC.