KU opens season on H.S. seniors
By WILL HARDESTY
From the first of October until the middle of January, it's "open season" on high school scionsi throughout America.
Colleges and universities will explain their programs, offer scholarships, and begin accepting applications for next fall's freshman class.
KU's number one hunter is Max Fuller, assistant director of admissions. He is in charge of explaining KU to students at high school visitations.
"We've had high school visitations for a number of years," Fuller said. "This year for the first time, we've got our visits better organized into regular tours. We'll see more students in less stops."
This is because more schools are joining to stage college visitations as a group.
Last year, Fuller and his staff traveled approximately 45.000 miles in visiting 271 high schools and junior colleges.
IT IS A KU policy to visit only schools that request a visit. Most stops are at Kansas high schools or high schools in communities immediately adjacent to Kansas.
However, there are a few major out-of-state trips. One goes into Oklahoma to Bartlesville, Tulsa, Miami, and Oklahoma City. Others go to St. Louis and Chicago.
"We go to these places because we have a number of students that come to KU from there, and/or there are strong alumni groups there." Fuller said.
LAST year, 32 faculty members including Fuller made visitation trips. This year, Fuller predicts about the same number will go.
Some of these people are regulars. For example, last year, Emily Taylor, dean of women, Fred McElhenie, assistant to the dean of men, Robert P. Lewis, assistant dean of the College, and Jerry Lewis, dean of the Centennial College, made several trips.
Others who travel are recruited from the College and the School of Engineering. A co-ordinator in each of these schools is responsible for finding people to travel when the Admissions Office needs them.
High schools usually have one of three types of programs: either a college assembly program, a college day, or a college night. At a college assembly, students are let out of class and required to attend the assembly. Attendance at the other types is voluntary. College Days are usually held for students in the afternoon. College Nights are usually held for parents and students.
Three students injured in Sunday morn wreck
Three KU students were injured in two accidents early Sunday morning.
Judith A. Herschman, St. Joseph, Mo., sophomore, and Tim M. Foread, Prairie Village sophomore, were injured when the car in which they were riding collided with two parked cars at 15th and Massachusetts.
THE DRIVER, Miss Herschman, had turned to talk with Forcade and did not see the parked cars, police said.
Both Miss Herschman and Foreade were treated for cuts at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Damage estimates were $1500,
Miss Herschman's 1966 Mustang;
$3500, a 1966 Pontiac owned by
Jerennie Mellinger, Lawrence;
and $250, a 1963 Volkswagen also
owned by Mellinger.
LINDA WALKER, Edina, Minn., freshman, was admitted to Watkins Memorial Hospital with injuries received when she overturned her vehicle on a county road, one-quarter mile north of the Santa Fe rail yard on Lakeview Road.
Miss Walker was reported in good condition by hospital authorities.
A KU representative going on a visitation will usually arrive about a half hour or so before he is scheduled to speak.
DURING this time the admissions man can talk to the high school counselors and answer any questions they have. He also gives the counselors the latest catalogs, admissions applications and any other materials the counselors have requested.
Most high schools ask college representatives to give about a half-hour presentation. KU's standard format is about a 15-minute talk followed by time for questions.
Four questions are the basis for KU representatives' talks:
"How do I get admitted?"
"How much will it cost?"
"Where will I live?"
"How can I get financial aid?" "If we don't answer these questions." Fuller said, "they will be the first four asked when we finish our presentation."
A COLLEGE representative in Kansas is in a rather unique position.
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Kansas is one of the few states with an "open door policy" on college admissions. A graduate of an accredited Kansas high school who has not previously attended a college will be admitted to KU if he applies.
"Our job is not recruiting, but informing." Fuller said. "We don't have to answer the question 'Can I get admitted?' but rather 'Which college would be best for me?'."
Of course, we don't always recommend that a student should go to college, or more specifically KU. Obviously, if a student is getting D's and F's in high school, his chances of doing well at KU would be slight."
Enrollments at all state-supported colleges and universities in Kansas were less than expected this fall. One possible reason for this is the draft.
Fuller thinks high school students are not thinking of draft dodging into college.
"The good students are still
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coming. The poorer students realize that the draft is something to be reckoned with and are not applying."
Fuller's job and that of other Kansas admissions counselors, as he sees it, is "to help students pick the school that will be best for them, judging on the criteria of the students' abilities, needs, and interests."
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