Very worried about college

Mwfan1921
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:49:26 +0000

Can you elaborate on the “demonstrate interest” part? Is that something American requires or stresses? Should I be doing this for all the schools I hope to apply to?

Following is a link to American U’s Common Data Set (CDS). Most schools fill this out annually, it has a wealth of information. In the table in C7, last line, you can see that American considers level of applicant’s interest as Very Important. Off the top of my head, I am not sure I can think of another school that rates applicant’s interest as Very Important. https://www.american.edu/admissions/experience-au/interviews.cfm You can look at the same table on Georgetown’s CDS which I linked to above and they say level of applicant interest is not considered.

For American, do the things I listed in my earlier post, as well as reaching out to your regional AO and engage with that person, whether at your school, on campus, by interviewing, and/or by emailing. When interacting with the AO ask questions that show you are educated about American, and ask questions that can’t be answered via a simple website search. American takes a significant proportion of their class thru the ED round, applying ED is the ultimate expression of applicant interest.

Regardless of what the CDS’s say, it makes sense to do these activities with any school, because that is how you learn about the school, its programs, culture, etc. Only by learning these things, and ideally a campus visit, can you gauge whether a school is a good fit for you, and you for them.