From Me to You

What up internet peoples. Nice to know you found TU’s Admission blog (with relative ease I hope.) I’ll just introduce myself since I’m a noob in the blog business. My name is Zack  and I’m a sophomore here at TU. My major has recently changed to Nursing (hecks yeah!!!) and I’m involved with quite a lot on campus. But I won’t bore you with the specifics.

Let’s see…well classes started a little over a month ago and the first round of exams hit pretty hard for everyone. Let’s face it; we all love our classes and professors until that first test. Then when you realize you should have been studying instead of watching Two and a Half Men or Glee.

I don’t want to take all your time, so I’ll wrap it up for this first entry. From time to time, I’ll update you on what’s happening on campus, and even in my collegiate life. I’ll also try to leave a vid or pics. The Grand Opening of our new Lorton Performance Center took place a couple weeks ago. So enjoy the video as I pay homage to the fine arts. Until next time…

 

THE APPLICATION: What’s a PART I?

PART I: APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION AND SCHOLARSHIPS

PART I of the Application includes your personal information (such as name, contact information, birthday, high school, etc) and your educational plans (what you plan to study, the semeser you are applying for, plans for talent-based scholarship auditions, etc.). It won’t take you long to fill-out, but it will get your application started and take a bit of the stress off (you can honestly say, Yes, Mom, I’ve started my college applications!)

  • You can do the paper PART I or submit it online once you have registered at apply.utulsa.edu.

PART II: APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION AND SCHOLARSHIPS

  • If you did the paper PART I, PART II will be mailed to you and we will create an online username and password for you at apply.utulsa.edu (in case you want to complete the rest online). We will mail you your username and password or you can contact your admission counselor to ask. Then, you choose whether to do the paper  PART II or complete it online.
  • If you did the online PART I, just log back in at apply.utulsa.edu and complete PART II.

    PART II is the real “meat” of the application and will take more time to complete. This is where you tell us about your college entrance exam scores, your academic information, your academic honors, work experience,extracurricular, community and volunteer activities, family background, you answer one essay question and complete the verification signature/required disclosure.

Whew! Are you tired yet? Don’t be! I promise it won’t take as long as you think.

PART III: APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION AND SCHOLARSHIPS/Secondary School Counselor of College Advisor Evaluation Form

  • PART III is attached to the paper copy of PART II or you can print it online here.

All you have to do is complete the top section and then give the form to your high school counselor, who will fill it out and send it in. See, you are practically finished!

THE REST: TRANSCRIPT, TEST SCORES AND APPLICATION FEE

Have you paid the application fee? Now, just have your high school send us your official transcript. If your ACT or SAT scores are on your transcript, your application is complete. (If not, call the testing agency and request that they send them. Now your application is complete!)

IN SUMMARY: So, you can do the application online, on paper, or a combination of both. Or, you can do the Common Application. Or, you can do our PART I and then submit the Common Application!

We don’t have a preference on how you apply, as long as you apply! And be sure to do so by November 1st to be considered for our Early Action Deadline.

Now, get to it!

-Casey Reed

6 Ways to Show a College You Care

As an admission counselor, I am going to let you in on a little secret…I love it when students contact me. It can be via phone, or email or Facebook. It can be to ask me a question or check on the status of an application- it doesn’t matter the reason. I love hearing from my students.  I like to know who is truly interested in TU, because it makes me happy and it makes my job easier. I’m here to help.

So, how do you show a college you are interested? Try one (or all) of these:

  1. Interview with an admission representative on campus or at a location near you.
  2. Take an official campus tour.
  3. Attend a college fair or other event sponsored by the college.
  4. Respond to the college’s mail, or fill out reply cards requesting information.
  5. Arrange to stay overnight on campus through the admissions office.
  6. Chat with the student or admissions representative who calls or e-mails you.

Are you interested in TU? If so, LET US KNOW!

Sign up for a campus tour!

-Casey Reed

Back To School

It’s that time again! Football games, sorority sisters, the colors of fall…I am so happy to have everyone back at TU! It was lonely this summer without a bustling, exciting student body here to keep things going!

The past few weeks have been crazy with sorority recruitment and the beginning of football season. I’m so glad to see TU playing such big-name teams, and I’m equally excited for the home opener against OSU this weekend! It will be a blast to watch, and our campus will be packed with fans! I’m so ready!!

Other than football and school, I’ve also begun the process of applying to law school…so scary! I can’t believe my time at TU is already coming to a close. It went by so fast, but I’ve still got a year left! I’m going to live it up, enjoy everything that TU has to offer before I graduate, and revel in being a senior!

I hope to see you all rooting on TU in the game this weekend! T-U-L-S-A!!!!

Forward-Thinking

What are TU students like?

I get this question a lot. The answer comes quickly… diverse. ambitious. forward-thinking. Those are the kinds of students I work with every year, and those are the kinds of students who choose to enroll at TU.

Our campus is diverse in that we have students from all of the country and all over the world. The majority of our students come from outside of the state of Oklahoma, and 19% of this year’s freshmen class is international.

Our students are ambitious. They tend to have multiple interests. They double major or pick up a few minors or complete certificate programs. They study abroad and participate in research projects. They join clubs and organizations, serve as leaders, and volunteer in the community. Their schedules and accomplishments are impressive.

Finally, our students are forward-thinking. This is the university for students who want to change the world and are eager to get started. This concept of forward-thinking is the reason why I do what I do. This is the reason I work in college admissions, and the reason I work at TU. Because the students I help enroll each year are the future leaders of the world. As a campus community, TU tries to give you all of the tools you need so that you really can get started today.

I wonder what you will accomplish if you come to TU? It gives me goose-bumps thinking about it.

-Casey Reed

The Lorton Performance Center

This weekend, TU celebrated the grand opening of the Roxana Rózsa and Robert Eugene Lorton Performance Center. The building is absolutely beautiful!

The 77,000-square-foot Performance Center, designed in the style of grand European opera houses, features a 700-seat concert hall with full performance stage, rehearsal and recitals halls, practice rooms and faculty offices for the School of Music and Department of Film Studies.

On Thursday night, there was a Gala celebrating the opening, and then on Friday and Sunday there were a number of performances by TU students, alums and special guests. These weekend performances were free and open to the public.

I think I need to go back to school to study music. Too bad I’m tone-deaf.

Here is a video about the new PAC.

-Casey Reed

TU Named as the Nation’s 75th Best University

 

U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 Edition of Best Colleges has named The University of Tulsa as the Nation’s 75th Best University

  • This marks the ninth consecutive year that TU has been listed in the Top 100 national universities, and TU is the only Oklahoma university to be included within the top 100. The publication’s 2012 rankings, released on Sept. 13, also show TU as 46th among the nation’s private doctoral universities.

We are such a proud Admission Office!

Back to School

It’s Emily here. It’s amazing what happens in a year. Last September I was not knee deep in a new semester, I was knee deep in a new job. I was just becoming acquainted with exactly what it feels like to live a dream and had just met the people I now consider some of my closest friends.  I had just made the leap from intern to someone who oversaw an intern. Now I’m an intern once again.

As every year has since I graduated from high school, last year completely transformed me. I’m certain that my senior year at TU will be no different. Reaching senior year is awesome, but it’s also scary. I don’t know what comes next.

Still, we are experiencing a real fall season in Tulsa this year, which is a rare and wonderful thing. The crisp, cool air signals coming change and sweater weather. Maybe it’s just me, but the world seems like a better, more manageable place when I’m wearing a cozy sweater.

And now, in honor of the return to school, a campus classic:

Welcome to the Admission Blog!

Hello prospective students, TU fans, and the campus community! I am so happy to be blogging on behalf of The Office of Admission.

My name is Casey Reed, and I am a Senior Executive Admission Counselor here at The University of Tulsa.

Our office tries to communicate a LOT of information to all of our great prospective students throughout the admission process, so we decided to create this blog to give us one more avenue to do so.

We are going to import our student blogs from their previous site, so this won’t be the first post. But it is the first post by the Office of Admission (aka: me).

Please feel free to leave comments- I want to know what you like reading about and what you want to see more of! I would love to hear from you.

Happy Reading!

Casey Reed