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Do’s and Don’ts For Campus Tours
Every summer our parking lots runneth over with families arriving from all over the country. This is no average summer road trip. They are packing up the car and charging the iPods on a quest to find out a little bit more about the colleges and universities that interest them (or their parents). To all of you who are planning trips this summer, we welcome you. We are eager to share the nuances of our respective schools. We know you have a lot of information at your fingertips with pamphlets and websites—maybe you’re even following your favorite schools on Twitter—but nothing can take the place of the all-important campus visit. Often, a two-hour experience on campus can make or break the decision to apply.

As the adviser for the Wake Forest University Ambassadors-in-Admissions, I’m lucky to have a lot of interaction with our current students as well as prospective ones. We have over 100 volunteer tour guides who go through an interview process and an entire semester of training to be able to show you around Wake Forest University. Last Thursday, we had our end-of-year dinner and awards ceremony. While stories of the best and worst tour moments of the year (including a gem that we’ve nicknamed “Snakes on a Tour”). we began to discuss the subject of Do’s and Don’ts for visitors. What makes a great tour? What can ruin it for everyone? We want to share some of the highlights as you prepare to visit campuses across the country.

Remember the Army slogan, “I Want YOU for the U.S. Army!”? The poster showed a very stern Uncle Sam jabbing his finger nearly out of the picture. What about the one by Smokey the Bear? “Even YOU can prevent forest fires!” Well, let’s add another one, shall we? “It’s important for YOU to consider Public School Rankings !” when considering a move to a new city or state. Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers – This is not some new teaching technique, but points to something unique. Publi...

The Logistics of Opting Out of the SAT
More than 10,000 applicants, about 8,000 personal interviews, over 7,000 standardized test scores, and 1201 freshman enrolled. That’s how the numbers stack up for the first freshman class admitted under Wake Forest University’s new test-optional policy. Last year, Wake Forest became the first top-30 national university to announce it was making the SAT and ACT optional for applicants. The first year of sorting through 10,555 applications under the new policy was admittedly more time consuming than in the past, but also more rewarding, says the university’s director of admissions Martha Allman The majority of applicants, or 72 percent, did submit their standardized test scores.

College Applications: “Less is More” Movement Picks Up Steam
This blog has been dedicated in part to spreading the message that less can be more when it comes to college applications. (“College Applications: More Isn’t Better” and “College Applications: More Isn’t Better – Part II”). Therefore it comes as no surprise that the Huffington Post characterized Wake Forest University as “one of the few schools trying to calm the admissions water” in its article headlined “Can Less Mean More in College Application Race?”

After the decision was made to make the SAT and ACT optional for applicants, Wake Forest did see a 16 percent increase in the number of application. But applications then plateaued at 10,500 – well below the 40,000 applications that some other universities receive. “We began saying to anyone who would listen that the number of applications do not really denote the quality of the school,” Martha Allman, Wake Forest’s dean of admissions told the Huffington Post. “We want serious applications.”

Continuing the Conversation in Baltimore Later This Month
If you missed out on the Rethinking Admissions Conference here at Wake Forest last spring, you’ll get another chance to hear from experts on some of the very same topics at this month’s meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). The last day of the national conference in Baltimore, September 26, includes three sessions on the use of standardized testing in admissions. First up is Wake Forest’s Martha Allman, who will join three other experts to discuss the ins and outs of implementing a test-optional admission policy. The NACAC answered the “why” of going test optional, now discussion turns to the “how.” The second panel will feature Wake Forest’s Joseph Soares, an associate professor of sociology who helped organize the Rethinking Admissions Conference. He will join two other scholars to discuss research on the old and new SAT and college admissions, as well as share Wake Forest’s experience with tests and admissions. The third panel will feature two speakers who will focus on alternative approaches to admissions and their impact on social diversity, academic quality, practical ability and creativity. You’ll find a full list of speakers below. There’s still time to register to attend the conference scheduled for September 24-26, or just log in to the NACAC conference blog for the latest news.

Write Queen Takes A Trip
As I told you in a previous newsletter Jason is a wonderful tour guide. Let me tell you about the last “tour”.

Normally we take our sightseeing after church on Sunday. This time, however, Jason and Jennifer had business in Guntersville that had to be taken care of on a weekday. Saturday morning we piled into the car, and headed for Guntersville, which is one of the originally settled areas in Alabama and is surrounded by lakes.

The business didn’t take long and we headed up the steep hill out of town to have lunch at a place called O’Charley’s. If you’re ever in Guntersville you absolutely must try O’Charley’s potato soup. It is to die for.

After eating we started our “tour” which was to include Guntersville State Park. Pennsylvania is my native state, and hills and trees remind me of home. Even though I lived in Florida for 23 years if you wanted to see hills and woods you had to travel north, way north.

MLA Format Paper
An MLA format paper is simply one of the two major types of citation styles. You need to have a Humanities, Arts or Social topics before you can use this. On the other hand, the APA format is used primarily for science based topics. But nevertheless, you can still interchange the two. So what is an MLA format paper? When it comes to in-text citation, you only need to capture the part of the document that you wish to use as reference. In MLA format, you need to have the part enclosed in quotation marks. Afterward, you can then put the author’s last name and the page number of his work something like this one (Lougen 8).

On a recent tour through Mexico and Central America, I realized that I had forgotten many things for my journey. For some reason I made it out of my house without my toothbrush and toothpaste, but fortunately I was able to replace them as soon as I realized my mistake. I also forgot film for my camera but was able to purchase some once I got to Mexico as well. Far worse than forgetting those things, however, was the realization that I had forgotten my Spanish dictionary that ...

Let's take a look at the mathematical task:

If there is no charge for the tour then the total consumer surplus is: 79$

CS = 20 + 14 + 30 + 15 = 79 $

The warden would have to offer 15 $ to get three people to postpone their visit (Jon, Jack & Fran). If one considers the people who abstain from visiting the caves on that day as suppliers, their total surplus will be: 3 + 1 + 0 = 4 $.

Before my home schooled kids started pleasing lessons slim of the home, they would tell people that they did not survey knowledge. I have found that schools holiday exhibits in the morning from 9 am pending lunch time and the universal broadcast visit exhibits in the sunset and weekends.

Rethinking Admissions Travel
By Kevin Pittard

Kevin Pittard is associate director of admissions at Wake Forest University. Here he shares his insights on the 2010 fall travel season, when admissions counselors travel to high schools and college fairs across the country and around the world.

The admissions office at Wake Forest University recently finished its 2010 fall travel season. We have put away our overnight bags, itemized our expenses, and counted up all our college fair inquiry cards. We have survived an eight-week sprint that both saps our energy and re-energizes us as we go out to spread the word about our school. Thankfully, travel season concludes just in time for us to interview more students here in our offices and mentally prepare to read the thousands of applications soon to be headed our way.

Research Proposal – Start Writing Your Paper
A student’s life will never be complete if he is not going to construct a research proposal. Basically, this project can be considered the climax of learning because it provides the student the capacity to look for new knowledge and search for answers that can satisfy a specific question. Now, if you are not really familiar with thesis writing then we will discuss things about it briefly.

A research proposal can be considered as a simple essay. The main difference is that it requires more parts, more extensive researching and demands highly structured system of writing. In essay writing, you only need the Introduction, Body and the Conclusion. On the other hand, a research proposal paper needs to have a Literature Review, Methodology, and Data Analysis.

Thesis topics may adapt well to whatever subjects you wish to write about. However, it is ideal if you could come up with a topic that has the following characteristics:

Examples of thesis
Examples of thesis are not a specific research papers. They are what enable the student to defy the writing charge. These are necessary because most students will never understand what is required of them, yet they continue to develop their ideas. These should therefore be emblematic research projects that illustrate a whole kind or type of research project.

Such examples do not always have to be specific to or look alike with what you have as a topic. In fact the danger is that if there are so many similarities, the student may be tempted to copy this which may of course is considered as plagiarized work. These are simply meant for creating an appropriate picture of a sample paper in your mind. The contents may be something that you have never stumbled upon or had the opportunity to read. You can still get help form an arts paper if you are a science student. Thus you can make your own paper come to life by adhering to what you read in examples of projects.