Admissions decreases recruitment spending
Latting said that the main area the admissions office is looking to save is on the price of postage required to mail out the publications. The admissions office will now be relying mainly on e-mail to communicate with prospective students.
"I think we've really tried to be careful to make changes and cuts that will be the least disruptive of what we do, so there's going to be some effect, but I hope that it's small," Latting said.
One method of recruiting that will not change will be the alumni interviews that Hopkins offers to applying students. The alumni interviewers are volunteer-based, and thus they will not be affected by the budget changes.
Latting said he does not expect the changes in the budget to affect the diversity of the applicant pool in the coming years. The core of the recruiting process generally comes from approximately 200,000 names that the admissions office purchases from the CollegeBoard, based on the top SAT, ACT and AP scores. This is the group that the admissions office targets, and they will not be changing this method of recruiting.
Latting says that this year's applicant pool is larger, more academically competitive and more diverse in terms of minorities and international students than it has been in all previous years. The applicant pool has also continued to grow in terms of students from the west coast and southwestern region of the United States, in areas such as California, Virginia and Florida.
However, the effects of the new budget cuts to recruiting will not be fully seen until next year, Latting said. Although the admissions staff did have to make a mid-year cut in its budget, the budget cuts mostly deal with next year's recruiting schedule.
Latting said the admissions office would reconsider its budget cuts if they were to significantly decrease applicants in the coming years.
"If there's any sign of a diminishing of our appeal, I think we would act pretty quickly to address that. The deans, president and provost expect me to let them know if the budget cuts are hurting our performance, and if so, I think they'd be willing to re-inspect our recruiting," Latting said.
"I think we've really tried to be careful to make changes and cuts that will be the least disruptive of what we do, so there's going to be some effect, but I hope that it's small," Latting said.
One method of recruiting that will not change will be the alumni interviews that Hopkins offers to applying students. The alumni interviewers are volunteer-based, and thus they will not be affected by the budget changes.
Latting said he does not expect the changes in the budget to affect the diversity of the applicant pool in the coming years. The core of the recruiting process generally comes from approximately 200,000 names that the admissions office purchases from the CollegeBoard, based on the top SAT, ACT and AP scores. This is the group that the admissions office targets, and they will not be changing this method of recruiting.
Latting says that this year's applicant pool is larger, more academically competitive and more diverse in terms of minorities and international students than it has been in all previous years. The applicant pool has also continued to grow in terms of students from the west coast and southwestern region of the United States, in areas such as California, Virginia and Florida.
However, the effects of the new budget cuts to recruiting will not be fully seen until next year, Latting said. Although the admissions staff did have to make a mid-year cut in its budget, the budget cuts mostly deal with next year's recruiting schedule.
Latting said the admissions office would reconsider its budget cuts if they were to significantly decrease applicants in the coming years.
"If there's any sign of a diminishing of our appeal, I think we would act pretty quickly to address that. The deans, president and provost expect me to let them know if the budget cuts are hurting our performance, and if so, I think they'd be willing to re-inspect our recruiting," Latting said.
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George Patsourakos
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posted 3/13/09 @ 5:50 PM EST
The Johns Hopkins Admissions Office is wise to decrease the amount of money it will spend by reducing its distant recruiting trips during the current economic slump. (Continued…)
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posted 4/07/09 @ 7:46 AM EST
Good information, thanks for the post!
alexhaffey
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posted 7/14/09 @ 10:33 AM EST
"We try to be where the talent is, and regardless of budget cuts, where there are interesting populations of students, we're going to be there," interesting words. (Continued…)
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posted 11/09/09 @ 10:11 AM EST
Thanks for great news!
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posted 11/14/09 @ 4:57 PM EST
Great news!
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