{"id":579,"date":"2010-04-21T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=579"},"modified":"2010-04-21T13:57:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:57:06","slug":"open-house-reflections-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2010\/04\/21\/open-house-reflections-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open House Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-420\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/AnnMcDermott.BLOG21.jpg\" alt=\"AnnMcDermott.BLOG2\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" \/>Open House for admitted students may just be my favorite day of the year.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 The excitement, energy and enthusiasm of all who participate create an atmosphere that is well, electric.\u00a0 On Sunday, April 18th, 550 students arrived on our campus, along with parents and assorted other family members.\u00a0 They were greeted by an army of Holy Cross student volunteers.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycross.edu\/publicaffairs\/features\/2009-2010\/crusader_mascot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Crusader<\/a> (our mascot) also greeted our guests, offering souvenir photo ops. Faculty and staff were on hand to describe programs and answer questions about what makes the Holy Cross experience unique. But for a passing downpour, it was by all accounts, a great day.\u00a0 To those of you who attended Open House, thanks for coming!\u00a0 We hope you enjoyed your time on campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you were unable to attend the program on Sunday, there are <strong>still visit opportunities available<\/strong> to help you get a better sense of what Holy Cross is all about. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycross.edu\/admissions\/visit\/tours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tours<\/a> are offered Monday \u2013Friday at 10, 12, 2 and 3. \u00a0Information sessions are also offered in April at 11:15 and 1:15.\u00a0 We encourage you to take advantage of a visit to campus as you weigh your college options.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you soon!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ann McDermott<br \/>\nDirector of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open House for admitted students may just be my favorite day of the year.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 The excitement, energy and enthusiasm of all who participate create an atmosphere that is well, electric.\u00a0 On Sunday, April 18th, 550 students arrived on our campus, along with parents and assorted other family members.\u00a0 They were greeted by an army &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2010\/04\/21\/open-house-reflections-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open House Reflections&#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":[7],"tags":[117,154,204,208],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ann-mcdermott","tag-information-sessions","tag-open-house","tag-tours","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}