{"id":2089,"date":"2016-04-22T02:41:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T06:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2016-04-22T02:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T06:41:43","slug":"why-i-chose-holy-cross-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2016\/04\/22\/why-i-chose-holy-cross-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Chose Holy Cross (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a little more than a week until the National Enrollment Deadline, I wanted to share more of my colleagues&#8217; stories on how they decided to attend the College of the Holy Cross. Here is what Tom had to say:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/04\/ts-4.22.16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2153 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/04\/ts-4.22.16-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"ts 4.22.16\" width=\"258\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/04\/ts-4.22.16-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/04\/ts-4.22.16-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/04\/ts-4.22.16-768x1186.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/04\/ts-4.22.16-995x1536.jpg 995w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/04\/ts-4.22.16-1326x2048.jpg 1326w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/04\/ts-4.22.16.jpg 1516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was looking at Catholic schools, and I knew I wanted a small liberal arts college, but I was also drawn in by the big Division-1 sports program. I had been familiar with Holy Cross&#8217;s academic reputation and had seen the campus at various soccer and basketball clinics I attended throughout my youth. The more I visited and got to know the culture, and feel the deep care and concern that everyone expresses for one another, the more I became convinced that Holy Cross was the school for me. I had a great experience in my undergrad years. I have many fond memories on the Hill, and seeing the familiar sights of campus always puts me in a good mood. I knew it would be a welcoming and accepting environment, and I thought it would give me the opportunity to give back to an institution that has given me so much. (Also, I dig that we can use the gym on our lunch break.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a little more than a week until the National Enrollment Deadline, I wanted to share more of my colleagues&#8217; stories on how they decided to attend the College of the Holy Cross. Here is what Tom had to say: I was looking at Catholic schools, and I knew I wanted a small liberal arts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2016\/04\/22\/why-i-chose-holy-cross-part-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I Chose Holy Cross (Part 3)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","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=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}