Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Building next year's classes

Admissions and the BBA Program Office are busy building next year's classes; the deadline for this set of students has already passed. We are currently in the midst of reading applications for next year's freshman class of preferred admits. They are really, really strong. Any concerns that some might have had that we would not be able to attract a group of smart and active freshman have been completely washed away. High SATs, high GPAs, strong analytic grades and scores, tons of activities, several have been running their own business for multiple years, good mix of in-state and out-of-state — good, good, good. We won't know until mid-summer how many of them are going to show up in September but I'm certain we'll be happy with the result.

The application deadline for current sophomores (rising juniors) is tomorrow (Feb 15). This will be our last 2-year program but it will be as strong as ever. Our third deadline, for current freshmen (rising sophomores), is the end of March. This will be our first 3-year program. We are looking forward to continuing our tradition of attracting a group of smart, highly motivated students to Ross. This has been, and will continue to be, the basis of our success.

Overall, adding our senior class to our three entering classes and next year we'll have around 800 students. We are eagerly awaiting the time when they arrive on campus. We are planning several activities for each group of students to help begin (or continue) to build a connection to Ross.

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