{"id":3534,"date":"2007-11-15T09:10:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T13:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:35:42","slug":"process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/11\/15\/process\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Bates as a model, media outlets demystify the admissions process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/11\/admissions7750.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/11\/admissions7750-400x266.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Prospective students and their families\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of a year, <em>Down East<\/em> magazine associate editor Michaela Cavallaro was granted access to all stages of the Bates admissions process. The result: a major feature in <em>Down East<\/em>&#8216;s November issue called &#8220;Who Gets In?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, Maine Public Radio news director Irwin Gratz\u00a0interviewed both Cavallaro and Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen on what the article revealed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the November 2007 <em>Down East<\/em> feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downeast.com\/Down-East-Magazine\/November-2007\/Who-Gets-In\/\">&#8220;Who Gets In&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Listen to the Nov. 12, 2007, Maine Public Radio story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpbn.net\/asx\/071112admissions.asx\">&#8220;College Admissions Revealed&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From 2005:<a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2005\/06\/07\/why-bates\/\"> &#8220;Why Bates,&#8221;<\/a> a <em>Bates Magazine<\/em> article focusing on the essential question Bates poses to all applicants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>Hansen said Bates administrators were &#8220;thrilled that someone was going to try to demystify the process.&#8221; Both stories stressed the importance of determining the &#8220;best fit&#8221; between school and prospective student. &#8220;Just as we teach students one at a time,&#8221; Hansen said, &#8220;we also admit them one at a time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter&#8217;s unrestricted access to all stages of the Bates admissions process results in a major feature in Down East magazine called &#8220;Who Gets In?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[130,14,17,11009],"tags":[10043,10840],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-faculty-staff","category-partners-public","category-the-college","tag-admission","tag-elaine-tuttle-hansen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89519,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions\/89519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}