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Happy Deadline Day, everybody!<\/p>\nHappy Deadline Day, everybody!<\/p>\n
What a wonderful holiday it is \u2013 today is the deadline to apply for first year admission to College of the Holy Cross. Like many of you, we are in the midst of our Deadline Day celebrations. Here in the Holy Cross Admissions Office, we are eating the traditional Deadline Day breakfast \u2013 coffee and eraser shavings; we are exchanging the traditional Deadline Day gifts \u2013 mechanical pencils, carpal tunnel survival kits and prescription glasses; we have even performed the traditional Deadline Day circle dance around the Deadline Day tree. (Well, it\u2019s more a stack of applications than it is a tree . . .)<\/p>\n
So, now that Deadline Day is here, we are afforded the opportunity to reflect back upon this last recruiting cycle \u2013 several thousand admissions interviews, over a thousand high schools visited, 120,000 airline miles and nearly 400 hours of free Wi-Fi logged at Paneras located around the continental United States. It\u2019s been an exhausting and exhilarating spring, summer and fall. Now all that\u2019s left to do is to read, read, present, discuss, debate and then finally vote. A month from now, our committee process will begin selecting and completing the next class of Crusaders. But before we can do that, we first must read. And read. Every application. Twice.<\/p>\n
So for now, I will bid adieu and return to my stack of applications. If you call my office in the next few weeks and don\u2019t get an answer, know that I\u2019m reading applications somewhere else. And if you find yourself in a Panera anytime soon and you see a spectacled, wrist-brace wearing, mechanical-pencil using academic surrounded by green folders and eraser shavings \u2013 don\u2019t laugh. Just know that we appreciate calculus, we appreciate early morning swim team practice, we appreciate tech crew and we\u2019d appreciate one of those enormous chocolate chip cookies.<\/p>\n
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Andrew N. Carter
\nAssociate Director of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Happy Deadline Day, everybody! What a wonderful holiday it is \u2013 today is the deadline to apply for first year admission to College of the Holy Cross. Like many of you, we are in the midst of our Deadline Day celebrations. Here in the Holy Cross Admissions Office, we are eating the traditional Deadline Day … <\/p>\n