Leadership Fellows invitation, or form letter?

Embracethemess
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:40:47 +0000

We attended Fellows week-end last year with S, and found it to be a great experience. We did it instead of Spring Orientation, and did not feel like S missed too much, other than getting his phoenix card/id - not a biggy at all since we did that easily enough on move-in day. I think he also missed registering for classes information, but again, he was able to figure that out online. I would say, however, that Fellows week-end was much more of a selling week-end for Elon than I had anticipated. Many of the information sessions were geared towards convincing kids that Elon was the school for them. Since S was an ED admit, this messaging wasn’t necessary for us. He also met a few kids that week-end that ultimately did not choose Elon. Not sure how this compares with Spring Orientation, and if those kids have mostly committed to Elon.

When all was said and done, he was not chosen for his fellows program, and looking back, he is now glad that he wasn’t. If your child is a fellows candidate, take a good look at the program and see if it fits their desires (admittedly hard to do this early on.) S is happy that he is not boxed into the specific curriculum, and has more freedom to choose other classes and when and where he studies abroad. The scholarship was what was really driving the interest, but in the end it has worked out best for him that he was not chosen. Good luck everyone, and have fun - ANY week-end at Elon is worthwhile!

PS - when you visit campus, take a good look at all the dorm options - you will be glad you did when it is time to register for housing!!