{"id":883,"date":"2011-03-07T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=883"},"modified":"2011-03-07T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:59:11","slug":"notes-from-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2011\/03\/07\/notes-from-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes From Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/AnnMcDermott.BLOG21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-420\" title=\"AnnMcDermott.BLOG2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/AnnMcDermott.BLOG21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We\u2019re in committee.\u00a0 For three more weeks, the twelve members of the Admissions committee will meet in an impossibly small conference room (pictured below) to discuss and debate the 7,350 applicants for the Class of 2015.\u00a0 Despite its small size, our \u201chome\u201d for the next several weeks is well equipped with all the things we need to do our work. Lap tops, projectors, and a document imaging camera are essential to our process, and the way in which we do our work.\u00a0 But the two most critical items without which committee members could not function:\u00a0 coffee and snacks.\u00a0\u00a0 Experience has shown that a fully caffeinated, well fed committee is a productive committee.\u00a0 So far, we\u2019re doing well.\u00a0 We&#8217;re actually running a little ahead of schedule. Maybe it\u2019s the coffee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2011\/03\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-884\" title=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2011\/03\/photo-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2011\/03\/photo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2011\/03\/photo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ann McDermott<br \/>\nDirector of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re in committee.\u00a0 For three more weeks, the twelve members of the Admissions committee will meet in an impossibly small conference room (pictured below) to discuss and debate the 7,350 applicants for the Class of 2015.\u00a0 Despite its small size, our \u201chome\u201d for the next several weeks is well equipped with all the things we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2011\/03\/07\/notes-from-committee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Notes From Committee&#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":[2,7],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions-staff","category-ann-mcdermott","tag-admissions-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","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=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}