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Colleges Unite!
Atlanta – It’s almost like a Lexus salesman taking a
potential customer for a ride in a BMW.
In order to attract high school students, Oglethorpe University
is joining forces with Emory, Oxford, Spelman, Morehouse and Agnes
Scott to showcase the array of liberal arts education that Atlanta
has to offer. The Peachtree Counselor tour gives high school
guidance counselors the opportunity to explore the breadth of
educational offerings at six very distinct learning institutions,
each of which offers the unique advantage of the city of Atlanta.
While most colleges compete vigorously for high school graduates,
these six colleges are working together to compete nationally with
other prestigious colleges and universities. The guidance counselors
are interested because they can combine a number of school visits on
one trip; the colleges hope that the counselors will be sold on
Atlanta higher education in general and the distinctiveness of each
college represented will help distribute prospective students.
“All of the colleges on the tour have a common mission, educating
students in the liberal arts, but we also have distinctive features
that will be showcased during The Peachtree Counselor Tour,” said
Barbara Henry, director of admission at Oglethorpe University and
organizer of this year’s tour. “We hope our guests will return to
their high schools and hometowns excited about the educational
choices available in Atlanta, and we will benefit from additional
qualified students from many areas of the country.”
Oglethorpe is classified as coeducational Baccalaureate I (BA-I)
and Emory and Emory’s Oxford College as Research I. Spelman and
Morehouse are distinctive as historically black BA-Is and Agnes
Scott as a single sex BA-I. Those classifications are determined by
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
On March 26, forty guidance counselors from 16 states will begin
visiting each school to learn what a diverse and remarkable
environment, academia, faculty and staff each school has to offer.
The counselors will spend several hours at each school.
Schedule:
Sunday, March 26
11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Information session and tour of Emory University
6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Dean’s reception at Emory University
Monday, March 27
8 a.m. – 1 p.m. Information session and tour of Oxford College
2 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Information session and tour of Agnes Scott
College
Tuesday, March 28
8 a.m. – 11a.m. Breakfast, information session and tour of Spelman
College
11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Information session and tour of Morehouse
College
4:30 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. Information session, tour, dinner and
entertainment at Oglethorpe University
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