<p>Admissions officers look over application letters from students. Students usually send these at the end of high school or sumer vacation. What do admissions officers do for the rest of the year?</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered that too. HS seniors submit their applications, let’s say from September until January. The adcom review the applications until May-June (waitlists). So…what do they do in the summer? lol</p>
<p>I would imagine they need some time to recuperate.</p>
<p>They go on the road and give admissions/recruitment talks and seminars at high schools and various other venues. They create and send out view books and admissions mailers. They also plan next year’s admission cycle. They look for top high school students that they think they might have a chance for. They review the past year and its results and look for ways to do better.</p>
<p>I’m sure they find plenty to do to keep themselves busy.</p>
<p>Exactly. If you read the blogs of adcoms (Tufts has one, for example), you’ll see that they talk about travel season, reading season, and so on. They spend a lot of the fall on the road. Immediately following reading season (i.e., right now), they spend a lot of time on events for admitted students, trying to woo them to come here instead of going elsewhere. I assume they spend a lot of the summer planning for the coming fall travel season and spring reading season. Summer is also probably when they take the lion’s share of their annual leave.</p>