Visit to your S/D High School by College Adcoms

Parents Corner
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<p>Make sure your S/D takes advantage of them.</p>

<p>S2 attended one this morning with a college in which he is moderately interested. The college was represented by the Midwest Admissions Counselor. S2 was the only one in attendance. As a result, the planned group presentation turned into an interview. It helped that S2 had already visited the school and was well-versed in the program of interest to him.</p>

<p>The Adcom told him that the interview went well, he would check S2's file upon return to campus and move it right into the second review process.</p>

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<p>On CC people often use the term “adcom” to refer to a person, but isn’t it short for “admissions committee”? Just curious.</p>

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<p>For some mysterious reason the term “adcom” morphed into meaning an “admissions officer”</p>

<p>I think it’s only here on CC as well. ( I could be wrong on this)</p>

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<p>^^^Technically yes, but we’re getting loosey goosey with our definitions. I guess we can use it to mean anyone from the admissions department.</p>

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<p>Oh… that’s my problem then. I can’t do loosey goosey with definitions. It goes against my nature. ;)</p>

<p>But thank you both for clarifying. I was wondering if there was some other thing “adcom” could be short for that would reference a person. Maybe “adcom” can also be short for “adcomem” – admissions committee member. </p>

<p>Or maybe we could invent a new term – “adoff” – for admissions officer. ;)</p>

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<p>I think we had this discussion a few years ago. People used a slightly different term for awhile and it morphed right back to AdCom.</p>

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<p>Okay, henceforth I’ll just consider it short for Admissions Commissar.</p>

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<p>UMdad: interesting; how would the adcom have handled it if your son was a junior and/or had not yet visited the school? wondering because my daughter’s school encourages juniors to attend these sessions and they too are often “alone”</p>

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<p>I encouraged my junior S to go to the visit for the school he is interested in attending. He’s very quiet, but there were 6 students there, so he wasn’t alone. </p>

<p>We didn’t know much about these visits a few years ago when D was a senior. She skipped the visit for one school, reasoning that she had already visited the school, done the tour, etc. She did attend a visit by another school, and was the only student there. She thought it went well, but that school rejected her. She ended up at the school whose visit she had skipped.</p>