A Rewarding Career

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A Rewarding Career

Shape our community. Collaborate with a forward-facing team. Become an admission counselor.

We are versatile, public-facing ambassadors. We recruit students, engage with families, host visitors, review applications, and make big decisions for the �ֲ��ý�� community. We serve on teams with enrollment operations, systems, financial aid, and marketing professionals. We serve alongside our senior directors and vice presidents. We’re not all �ֲ��ý�� alumni, but we are all �ֲ��ý��ians.

Develop as a Professional

Our work is student-centered and cyclical: We travel the world and meet students throughout the fall; we read their admission applications in the winter; we host them on campus in the spring; and we tackle new projects (and use most of our vacation days!) in the summer.

Our job requires many skills — some of which we develop, and others we already had — including data analysis, event planning, sales/recruiting, marketing, and interviewing.

Help Shape Your Community

We advocate for those who can succeed here, and we take great pride in the outcome: students from 50 states, 70 countries, and with all kinds of diverse experiences and worldviews.

Our job involves reviewing applicants’ academic and personal backgrounds and experiences to determine who should be offered admission. �ֲ��ý�� students come from all over the world, and we know our community well.

Commit Yourself to the Common Good

�ֲ��ý�� cares deeply about equity, support, and inclusion, and we are one of very few colleges nationwide that practices need-blind admission for domestic applicants and that meets 100% of demonstrated financial need without loans.

Consider this student employee's comments: “I learned quickly working at �ֲ��ý�� what a well-working social justice machine looked like and how I can fit into that in the professional world.”

What do admission counselors do?

Manage a Recruitment Territory
Review Applications
Welcome On-Campus Visitors
Collaborate with Your Colleagues

Take ownership of a region of the United States or the world by developing and executing a data-informed recruitment strategy and serving as the contact person for students and families in your territory. Visit high schools and attend college fairs in those areas. Meet and interview your students when they travel to �ֲ��ý��. Be one of the first readers for their application, and make your case for their admission decision.

Evaluate admission applications holistically from students in your territory and beyond. Advocate for students well suited to have a life-changing experience at �ֲ��ý�� and serve as a voting member of the admission selection committee.

Help welcome students and families who make the trip to �ֲ��ý�� by participating in visit programs (such as Junior Visit Day and Admitted Student Programs) and other visit-related informational events — including virtual.

Plan campus visits and events with the Visit Team. Tackle projects related to social media and student outreach with the Admission Marketing and Communications Team. Develop recruitment strategy with the Multicultural Recruitment Team. Collaborate with current students working in our office. Learn a CRM and a CMS. Depending on your skills and interests, you will help with various office initiatives.

Our Team

You'll work with a dynamic, forward-facing team that is passionate about the work we do.

See us

Hear us

Our office, at a glance:

The personal...

Our team includes recent graduates and seasoned veterans. We are alumni of �ֲ��ý��, other liberal arts colleges, large state schools, and the Ivies. We are parents of humans and pets. We bake, fence, hunt, travel, get graduate degrees, and run marathons. And �ֲ��ý�� is the thing that ties us all together.

The professional (this year alone)...

1 million website ping hits
12 million marketing emails sent
120,000 individual print pieces mailed
3.5 million student records under management
8,000 application reader review forms submitted
250 quality-control system queries monitored daily
300,000 material documents collected and processed
50 active data-source specifications for partner organizations

Conner Stanfield ’21

Assistant Director of Admission and Coordinator of Campus Visits

“Helping students navigate the college admission process is hands-down the most rewarding aspect of this job. I’m consistently impressed by the maturity, insight, thoughtfulness, and compassion I witness while interviewing students and reading applications. Seeing students thrive on campus and knowing I played a role in bringing them here always makes me smile.”

Patty Amador-Lacson

Senior Associate Director of Admission and Coordinator of Strategic Partnerships

“One of my favorite accomplishments has been developing the reputation of being a person of trust among my peers and the students that I recruit. A number of students choose to maintain close ties with me throughout their academic careers, and I appreciate being people’s ‘�ֲ��ý�� mom’ if they need one. That’s not an expectation of any admission counselor, but it is something I’m really proud of.”

Christian Morris ’18

Assistant Director of Admission and Coordinator of Transfer Admission

“My colleagues continuously inspire me to think creatively about our work, while also considering the human aspects (ethics) with every step. Being empathetic and emotionally intelligent is a core value in the way �ֲ��ý�� operates.”

Grace Robertson-Lloyd ’16

Associate Director of Admission and Coordinator of Virtual Recruitment

"I am so proud of the success of the international admission team. Through our work, we enroll a diverse group of non-U.S. citizens from 85+ countries representing 20% of �ֲ��ý��’s population, and �ֲ��ý��’s campus is lent a global, vibrant feel. Our work gives �ֲ��ý�� the energy of a cosmopolitan city while being in a close-knit, caring, small-town place."

Benefits, you ask?

We partner with Human Resources to promote a positive employment experience where everyone feels welcome, engaged, and knows they are a valuable member of our community. While benefits are a topic you should discuss with Human Resources as you move through your job search, we invite you to take an introductory glance at our benefits overview.

Our Community

�ֲ��ý�� is a place where rural doesn’t mean limited, where small doesn’t mean boring.

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