admissions officer

noun

: an official at a school who is in charge of admitting students

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Consider the typical admissions officer, who currently spends countless hours responding to basic email inquiries and updating spreadsheets. Vinay Bhaskara, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 James Nolan, a former admissions officer at the University of Pennsylvania, suggested that his family’s status and connections might have influenced Trump’s admission. Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024 Speakers including former Harvard admissions officer Devery Doran and University of California-Santa Cruz admissions officer Gianna Benson will discuss changes and trends in college admissions for UC campuses and private colleges. Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2024 Her father was a lawyer, and her mother was a hospital admissions officer and former model. Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 10 July 2024 Whatever the future holds, Bradford has a very impressive addition to his résumé that might impress a college admissions officer looking for students with ambition and unusual experiences. Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024 Robert and Patricia decided to send her to Kent, a private boarding school in Connecticut where her uncle was an admissions officer. Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024 Dan Duprez, a former New College admissions officer, said he was troubled by the tactics used to grow the incoming class, noting that the grade-point averages and standardized test scores of new students were lower than those of past freshman classes. Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023 Imagine being an admissions officer at a large state school who must review 4,000 of, say, 20,000 applications that came in before the deadline. IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023

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