{"286071":{"#nid":"286071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Admission Taps Campus to Recruit New Yellow Jackets","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn the Ides of March, 3,175 high school students around the world had reason not to beware but to rejoice when they were notified of their admission to the Class of 2018 at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENearly 26,000 students applied to Georgia Tech this year \u2014 a 46 percent increase from 2013. And with an overall admit rate of 32 percent, compared to 41 percent last year, this class is the most competitive in Tech\u2019s history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese students are not only brilliant, but are also having an impact on their communities, and we expect that to only make Tech a better place,\u201d said Rick Clark, director of Undergraduate Admission. \u201cThey\u2019re excellent across the board.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdmission staff saw about twice as many applications from a number of areas, including Illinois, New York, and California. Still, Tech held strong in Georgia, receiving 16 percent more applications from in-state students and admitting approximately 39 percent, compared with 36 percent out-of-state and 14 percent international.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeliberations are over for Admission staff, who spent months poring over the minutia of prospective student applications to choose the best. Now, for accepted students, the deliberation has just begun, and Director of Undergraduate Admission Rick Clark is asking for all hands on deck for the final recruitment push.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve admitted them, and now is when the campus-wide recruitment effort begins,\u201d Clark said. Specifically, he\u2019s asking the campus community to step up in two ways: Be experts, and be accessible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENearly 5,000 students will visit campus in the coming weeks, many of them admits who are determining where they\u2019ll invest their time and money for the next several years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBe welcoming and be friendly if you see people who are visiting campus,\u201d he said. \u201cAsk where they\u2019re from, and, if it\u2019s an admitted student, heartily congratulate them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClark encourages all current students, faculty, and staff to reach out to high school students they know who have been admitted and let them know why they should choose Georgia Tech. Students consider these personal connections when making final enrollment decisions, he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne example is Savannah Cain, a business administration major who connected with a friend from high school who was a year older.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTalking to an upperclassman made me realize that Tech had all the opportunities that I wanted in a school,\u201d she said. \u201cIt took away my stresses about Tech being too hard to manage, but I still felt I would be challenged.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor those who may not know any admits personally, they can reach out to the admission liaison for their area of campus to assist with writing letters or making calls to admitted students to offer assistance answering their questions and encouraging them to enroll. For current students who want to go the extra mile, they can \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.admission.gatech.edu\/applygttours\u0022\u003Eapply to be a tour guide\u003C\/a\u003E beginning this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith this being the first year Tech\u2019s used the Common App, an increase and change in the applicant pool was expected. With a pool that was larger, but also exceptional in its diversity and quality, it presented a unique challenge for Admission staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re having to get more nuanced on so many of our files,\u201d Clark said. \u201cIt\u2019s challenging, but it\u2019s also fun. To think about building this class of kids that\u2019s not just killing it in the classroom but could really change Georgia Tech and ultimately improve the human condition, that\u2019s pretty incredible.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Campus community asked to be welcoming, be accessible, and be experts for admitted students."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECampus community asked to be welcoming, be accessible, and be experts for admitted students.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Campus community asked to be welcoming, be accessible, and be experts for admitted students."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2014-03-26 14:06:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:07","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"221241":{"id":"221241","type":"image","title":"Buzz Consults Campus Map","body":null,"created":"1449243516","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:38:36","changed":"1475894891","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:11","alt":"Buzz Consults Campus Map","file":{"fid":"197270","name":"0524103-p27-112.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0524103-p27-112_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0524103-p27-112_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1117785,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/0524103-p27-112_0.jpg?itok=Rt5x4xtJ"}},"286061":{"id":"286061","type":"image","title":"How to Yield a Student","body":null,"created":"1449244237","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:50:37","changed":"1475894981","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:41","alt":"How to Yield a Student","file":{"fid":"199080","name":"admission-story-graphics-2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/admission-story-graphics-2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/admission-story-graphics-2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":297837,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/admission-story-graphics-2_0.jpg?itok=t0d0gfFy"}}},"media_ids":["221241","286061"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/admission.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Undergraduate Admission"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10347","name":"undergraduate admission"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}