{"id":34,"date":"2008-10-07T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/2008\/10\/07\/the-why-and-the-how\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T05:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T09:37:00","slug":"the-why-and-the-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2008\/10\/07\/the-why-and-the-how\/","title":{"rendered":"The why and the how"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lynn\"Fill out Common Application?\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Request transcript?\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Ask favorite teacher for letter of recommendation?\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Have mom or dad write a check?\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Schedule admissions interview?\u00a0 Screeeeech!\u00a0 Wait, what?\u00a0 Do you really need one more thing to add to your endless to-do list?\u00a0 We say yes.\u00a0 At Holy Cross, we encourage all applicants to have a one-on-one interview.\u00a0 We know you’re busy (and hey, we’re busy too!), but we know that the 30 minutes we’ll spend with you is well worth it.<\/p>\n

An application for admission contains a lot of information.\u00a0 Most of it falls into the categories of who (you), what (track team), where (school, community) and when (4 year captain!).\u00a0 All good information, but something is missing.\u00a0 The purpose of an interview is to uncover the why (my older sister who I really admire ran track and I wanted to follow in her footsteps) and the how (6 practices a week, rain or shine, even through shin splints) of what you do.\u00a0 As interviewers, we want to dig a little bit deeper to help your application file resemble the true, whol
\ne “you” just a little bit more.\u00a0 That’s it.\u00a0 No trick questions, no riddles, no puzzles.\u00a0 Just a friendly conversation with someone who finds you (and your shin splints) interesting.<\/p>\n

Interviews are offered on campus through December 31.\u00a0 Call us now, and cross off one more thing from that ridiculously long list.\u00a0 We’ll get to know you a little bit better, and maybe you’ll learn something about Holy Cross–and yourself–in the process.<\/p>\n

Lynn Verrecchia
\nSr. Assistant Director of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fill out Common Application?\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Request transcript?\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Ask favorite teacher for letter of recommendation?\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Have mom or dad write a check?\u00a0 Check!\u00a0 Schedule admissions interview?\u00a0 Screeeeech!\u00a0 Wait, what?\u00a0 Do you really need one more thing to add to your endless to-do list?\u00a0 We say yes.\u00a0 At Holy Cross, we encourage all applicants to … <\/p>\n

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