{"id":2306,"date":"2016-07-08T15:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2016-07-08T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:15:44","slug":"jad-is-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2016\/07\/08\/jad-is-in-full-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"JAD is in Full Swing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2308\" style=\"width: 467px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/07\/101457scr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2308\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/07\/101457scr-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"photo by Tom Rettig\" width=\"467\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/07\/101457scr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/07\/101457scr-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/07\/101457scr.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Tom Rettig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although\u00a0a quick peek at the <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/weather\/5day\/l\/USMA0502:1:US\">weather forecast<\/a> may suggest otherwise (so many cloudy days ahead!),\u00a0it is definitely summer. At Holy Cross, we admission counselors in the office are keeping busy with all kinds of summer activities, such as enjoying summer reading, spending time on the beach, and savoring the delicious barbecue from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycross.edu\/campus-life\/dining\/locations-menus-hours\/crossroads\">Crossroads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One particular summer activity of note is our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycross.edu\/visit\/july-advisory-days\">July Advisory Day Program<\/a>. \u00a0If you have not been following us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HCAdmission\">Twitter<\/a>, July Advisory Days occurs\u00a0every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of this month. \u00a0On these afternoons, we offer tours and info sessions as always but also add a short session on how to plan for the college interview and how to write the Common App college essay\u2013not to mention we serve\u00a0cookies from the dining hall as an afternoon pick-me-up.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to come to Mt. St. James for a visit! We have enjoyed a great turnout so far, and we&#8217;ll be here all month! For those of you who can&#8217;t make it to campus, we will be posting some takeaways in the coming weeks with some information regarding the Common App essay and the college interview.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although\u00a0a quick peek at the weather forecast may suggest otherwise (so many cloudy days ahead!),\u00a0it is definitely summer. At Holy Cross, we admission counselors in the office are keeping busy with all kinds of summer activities, such as enjoying summer reading, spending time on the beach, and savoring the delicious barbecue from Crossroads. One particular &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2016\/07\/08\/jad-is-in-full-swing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JAD is in Full Swing!&#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":[2,27],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions-staff","category-sarah-gale","tag-july-advisory-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","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=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}