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The Creative Arts Major: Visual Practices
In April 2023, Agnes Scott's faculty voted on the creation of a new major program, the Creative Arts major, to encompass multiple existing and new academic areas. In order to explore these new and refreshed areas of study, over the next few months we will be releasing a series of blog posts guest-written by Agnes Scott professors about their areas…
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The Year Ahead in SUMMIT
When we’re talking to prospective students at their high schools, college fairs and during campus visits, we talk a lot about SUMMIT, Agnes Scott’s signature four-year experience based on global learning, leadership development and professional success. However, we do understand that it can be difficult to visualize what that will actually look like for you once you begin your Agnes…
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Class of 2027 Certified Scotties
Every year, we highlight a few members of the incoming class of students on the @ASCAdmission social media accounts through our Certified Scottie profiles. In this post, we'll be giving you the stories as written, so you can find them all in one place!
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An Application Opens
August 1 has come and gone and with it, the Common Application, and thus, Agnes Scott’s admission process, has once again opened. While it will be some time until we actually jump into applications (Agnes Scott’s first deadline is the November 1 Early Decision deadline), we know that many students are already in the Common Application, starting to fill it…
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Move-In Day Mania
As of the posting of this blog, we are less than a month away from our newest class of students (shout out to the Green Class of 2027!) moving onto campus. In the spirit of that timeline, we wanted to compile some advice and suggestions of ways to make your life easier and better during your move-in day and orientation…
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Preparing for the College Fair Season
While the admissions counselors here at Agnes Scott are attending college fairs to meet with high school students year round, the official start of the college fair season will kick off for us at the end of this month with the Colleges That Change Lives college fairs.
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Inhabiting Perseverance
Last year, I wrote a blog post about my love of space, specifically NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover, and how it related to the college search process. For the record, this was published before Curiosity made the entire internet cry on its tenth birthday by no longer having the power to sing itself happy birthday,as it had done every year prior.…
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ASC’s Rising Senior Summer Survival Guide
If you’re anything like me, sometimes you don’t give your Future Self a lot to work with. Whether it’s eating dairy as a lactose intolerant individual or procrastinating on a paper, sometimes Present Me decides that the consequences are Future Me problems. In the college search and application process, however, leaving everything for the Future You will make for an…
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Pride at Agnes Scott
As we head into June, it’s Pride Month across the United States! We at Agnes Scott Admission want to wish all of our LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, staff and prospective students a Happy Pride from all of us.
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ASC Decoded: Pancake Jam
The ASC Decoded series seeks to explain the unique parts of Agnes Scott’s identity that students may have never heard of. Today, we cover Pancake Jam, the twice-yearly event that just occurred on campus.
