{"id":107,"date":"2007-09-09T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/2007\/09\/09\/meet-an-admissions-counselor\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T16:49:00","slug":"meet-an-admissions-counselor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2007\/09\/09\/meet-an-admissions-counselor\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet an Admissions Counselor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/kelli.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kelli\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" \/> Hi everyone!. My assignment (and I\u2019ll skip the lame &quot;should I choose to accept it&quot; <em>Mission Impossible<\/em> allusion) is to introduce myself to you.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up and went to high school in Western Massachusetts.&nbsp; I\u2019m not a Holy Cross alum, but some of my most caring, intelligent and interesting friends are.&nbsp; They influenced my decision to join the Holy Cross Admissions Staff, and three years later I have no regrets about that choice.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite admissions responsibilities include reading the applications that you\u2019re currently, or soon will be, slaving over (Though you may not have fun filling them out, yes, we do actually like reading them.) and acting as co-commissioner of the Admissions\u2019 summer bocce league (the sport of champions :-).<\/p>\n<p>When not reading essays or refereeing bocce games, I enjoy watching Discovery Channel\u2019s <em>Deadliest Catch<\/em>, though I admit that because each episode bears a remarkable resemblance to every other episode, I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve seen some of them numerous times and never noticed.&nbsp; I also enjoy hanging out with my betta fish, Jann (pronounced yawn) and Bjorn, who like reality television too, but don\u2019t like shows about fishermen.<\/p>\n<p>In the near future, I look forward to sharing a story or two from the road\u2014my travel territories include Atlanta, the five boroughs of New York City, Long Island, and Chicago proper.&nbsp; If you live in those areas be on the look out for me at college fairs or high school visits.&nbsp; Perhaps we\u2019ll see each other this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Kelli J. Powell<br \/>Assistant Director of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone!. My assignment (and I\u2019ll skip the lame &quot;should I choose to accept it&quot; Mission Impossible allusion) is to introduce myself to you. I grew up and went to high school in Western Massachusetts.&nbsp; I\u2019m not a Holy Cross alum, but some of my most caring, intelligent and interesting friends are.&nbsp; They influenced my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2007\/09\/09\/meet-an-admissions-counselor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet an Admissions Counselor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}