{"id":533,"date":"2010-03-23T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=533"},"modified":"2010-03-23T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:48:05","slug":"newest-admissions-member-reflects-on-committee-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2010\/03\/23\/newest-admissions-member-reflects-on-committee-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Newest Admissions Member Reflects on Committee Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-425\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/NicoleZervos.BLOG2.jpg\" alt=\"NicoleZervos.BLOG2\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" \/>About five weeks ago, the twelve members of the Holy Cross admissions staff convened to  start our \u201ccommittee\u201d process. As a first year Admissions Counselor, I&#8217;ll  admit\u00a0that I was a bit nervous. After weeks of reading applications,  highlighting students\u2019 academic success and\u00a0getting to know them through their  essays and extracurricular accomplishments, I knew the decision making process  would be no easy feat.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to a  few weeks later. It&#8217;s the last day of committee and we&#8217;re making those final few  decisions. I have to say, it\u2019s been a lot harder than I ever could have  imagined. As a first-timer in committee this year, I thought I&#8217;d share a few of  my favorite aspects of committee\u00a0to help you understand how we go about making  our decisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>I love  the amount of time we spend discussing each and every  applicant.<\/strong> Discussion is  crucial in our committee room. I could be feeling one way one minute, and then  a\u00a0someone will make a comment that may help me see a completely\u00a0different\u00a0side  of the applicant that I might not have seen before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>It truly  is a democratic process. <\/strong>We take a vote  on every application and majority wins.\u00a0Often, there\u2019s not a clear winner. So we  vote again. And sometimes even a third vote is required! It\u00a0can be  tedious, but that\u2019s the beauty of the committee process: everyone gets a fair  shot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>We take  a very holistic approach.<\/strong> Sometimes it  feels like all we\u2019re seeing is numbers.\u00a0 GPA\u2019s. \u00a0Class ranks.  Numbers of honors and AP\/ IB courses. It can be hard to distinguish between  them, but then someone reads a nice quote from an essay or an interview write up  and it makes all the difference in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nicole Zervos  &#8217;09<br \/>\nAdmissions  Counselor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About five weeks ago, the twelve members of the Holy Cross admissions staff convened to start our \u201ccommittee\u201d process. As a first year Admissions Counselor, I&#8217;ll admit\u00a0that I was a bit nervous. After weeks of reading applications, highlighting students\u2019 academic success and\u00a0getting to know them through their essays and extracurricular accomplishments, I knew the decision &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2010\/03\/23\/newest-admissions-member-reflects-on-committee-process\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newest Admissions Member Reflects on Committee Process&#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":[25],"tags":[42,96,122],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nicole-zervos","tag-admissions-decisions","tag-essay","tag-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}