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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Admitted Student Day On March 31st Is Better Than Flying Space Dolphins

If you have zero artistic taste, you can buy this awesome poster here
The feeling you get when you open your first college acceptance letter should be bottled. It's kind of like winning the lottery while riding a flying dolphin into a pastel sky of cotton candy clouds. At least, that was what it was like for me.


Sadly, we were unable to bottle the experience of pure joy (apparently Apple already owns the patent and is attempting to make it a standard feature on the iPhone9S), but we were able to channel its essence into our planning for Admitted Student Day this year.


ASD (appearing in shortened form to save me from developing carpal tunnel) is our celebration of your accomplishment. You're proud, we're proud of you, and we're proud to welcome you into our fall class. To reflect all that pride, we've planned an awesome day for you.


Read on for the schedule:

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Marymount College FAQs 2012

You've frequently got questions. We've frequently got the answers. If you've got a question you want answered, you can frequently find it in this post. 


If it isn't here, it may be in one of our older posts. 


If it isn't in one of our older posts, it's probably on our website. 


If it isn't on our website, it probably doesn't matter much. But if it's really got you confused, you can always email us here.



Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Correctly Named "Spring Preview Day" Is On Saturday, 2/11

Yes, that's really our campus. No, it's not 'shopped. 
It's almost time for Spring Preview Day! Woot! 

That's a day in spring when you can preview our campus. Hence the name. 


Logical appellations aside, Spring Preview Day is truly "woot"-worthy because it represents one of your best (and last) formal opportunities to see all that Marymount has to offer. 


Oh yeah,
it's free and comes with two awesome meals—which is certainly reason enough for me (I like food). 


In addition to eating, you can:
  • Meet our faculty
  • Get the insider secrets to earning admission into Marymount, and complete your application during another aptly named event—the "application workshop" (see what I did there?)  
  • Interview with your admission counselor
  • Learn about our various degree programs
  • Get all of your burning Financial Aid questions (the FAQs of FA, as it were) answered and file your FAFSA with the support of one of our Financial Aid team members. 
  • Tour our awesome, townhouse-style residences
  • Tell me how awesome my blog is and watch me blush (like a ripe strawberry on a warm spring day. ...Nummers.)


Click here to RSVP!

Read on for the full schedule.


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Ten Ways To Ensure You Will NEVER Be Admitted To College

http://writing.wikinut.com/img/2188z727cx43bs.l/Rejection-stamp
Do you delight in defeat? Are you a "winner" only as defined by Charlie Sheen? Are you applying to college simply to pile more rejection onto your life-long resume of regret?


If so, this post is for you. 


(If you're one of those do-good-ers who actually wants to attend college, you should probably avoid doing anything on this list. It won't do you any favors.) 


How NOT to be admitted to college, after the jump:

Monday, January 9, 2012

FAFSA Filer Award: Easiest. $1,000. Ever.

Step 1: Fill out the FAFSA with Marymount's school code (010474) included by March 1st. 


Step 2: Earn $1,000 in free scholarship money toward your Marymount College Tuition (on top of any other scholarships you've been awarded). 


Summary: $1,000 for filling out a form you have to fill out anyway. Yes, we agree: we're crazy. Crazy awesome. 

Monday, November 28, 2011

Walk-In Application Day Returns Like a Jedi on 12/2/11

Image from starwars.wikia.com. Property of Lucasfilm Ltd
Last year we had five Walk-In Application Days. At the onset I thought I'd be clever and compare each to the nearest major holiday. 


Why holidays? Because WIAD is a long tradition (like Thanksgiving Dinner), stressful (like Black Friday), and fun for the whole family (like Christmas Morning). 


That was fun for the first few, but I rapidly ran out of witty holiday metaphors (and also, incidentally, of the holidays themselves). So this year, rather than resorting to a hackneyed attempt at making a analogy to National Mutt Day on 12/2/11, I'm going to try something new (and equally hackneyed):


Movie Sequels 


And what better sequel to start us off than George Lucas's finest work, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi?


So, here goes after the jump. 


...Please pardon my nerdiness.