[1457] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: A new ballgame at MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian T. Sniffen)
Tue Sep 16 17:55:47 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:01:16 -0400
From: "Brian T. Sniffen" <bts@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309161515370.23831-100000@sub-zero.mit.edu>
(wally@sub-zero.mit.edu's message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:24:22
-0400 (EDT)")
> 'Marilee' doesn't admit students, the admissions staff does. She has
> authority, but it's not absolute. I'd wager <$100 that you're identifying
> a trend at lots of US universities. Sloan is more prominent now than it
> was, partly through their own go-out-and-grab-undergrads efforts. And
> Course VI certainly doesn't make any particular effort. Nor does Course
> II, that I can recall. But look at Ocean Eng: have their preorientation
> and outreach activities helped enrollment? That's where the more telling
> stats'll come from, I reckon.
Course II has been running a "Discover Mechanical Engineering"
pre-Orientation program for a few years. It apparently increased the
number of frosh who declare Course II by about 30% (from ~90 to ~120)
in its first year. I don't have easily accessible numbers for XIII's
DOE, but they keep running it and it inspired DME, so it must be working.
-Brian
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Brian T. Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
http://www.evenmere.org/~bts/
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