BERYL: With our smiles we welcome you-- welcome, welcome, welcome to New York University.
PHIL: Hi, welcome to NYU, here for open house?
WOMAN: Yes!
PHIL: Great, so just step forward and get a guest sticker
ANNIE: Nice purple jacket for today!
ANDREW: Yep, this is yours.
LIAM: Sticker for you!
JONATHAN: There's that question that lingers for a lot of us. What is NYU looking for? Maybe
that's why you're here today, to figure that out, and, and what I would encourage
you to do is tweak that question a little bit.
This process is about you.
It's not really about what we're looking for, but rather, what do you want out of
this experience called college.
PRITI: We want you to be honest on those applications.
We want you to show us that you have been working hard, and that you believe
in our mission at NYU.
CELESTE: They think that there's this big wall between us, that there's
this them and there's this us and, no, we're in this-- we're really in this together.
WYATT: When I think about our work with NYU Shanghai undergraduate
admissions, I think about opening a door and ultimately to help you have a seat
at the table, and we like to think of it as the global table.
[CHEERS]
Around the year, 365,
seven days a week, we're really thinking about how can we best travel around the
world to find the right students for this institution.
EUDORA: Between September and October I spent two months traveling.
I went all up and down the west coast in the US, and so I went everywhere
from San Diego to Seattle, I did Canada, so Toronto
and Ottawa, earlier this year I was in Ghana, uh, for two and a half weeks, doing
some recruitment there. I did an event in Ethiopia
and the Caribbean, are like my territories.
SHAWN: Welcome to our evaluation selection training program, this is a
program that we host every year, evaluating and selecting the class of
2022 is really our most awesome responsibility and it is something that
I hope all of us take very seriously it's something that you should all be
proud of, the role that you play in this work, and I hope it's something that
you're really excited about.
JASMINE: So we're processing over a million documents a year
JIMMY: I think the sheer volume of how much time we put into each application
is something that could be very surprising to folks.
ANNIE: Something else that might surprise students is we read from home
and sometimes we're reading from home in our pajamas.
KELLY: Hi, my name is Kelly, we're on the third floor of the
undergraduate admissions office. Today's the first day we start at packaging
admit packs for early decision one.
Are you printing?
There goes the machine!
Admit letters!
[LAUGHS]
We label every single envelope ourselves. As you can see, Yolanda right
here is labeling. Early decision one and two are both very manual processes that
we personally do ourselves. It's exciting throughout the year, I mean
seeing the applications come in, seeing all the documents come in, being able to
decision those applications, it's very, very exciting.
And that person is ready to be admitted!
MATEEN: Yes, I am making a tangible difference. Yes, I'm
making an impact on the students life.
[MUSIC] [CHEERS]
One thing that I really love about NYU
is the value of bringing education to every person, just, the idea that
education should be accessible to more than just the elite. You know, a lot of times we
can see ourselves in some of the students experiences.
STUDENT: I mean it's knowing that I'm going to college, I'm the first of my family,
and being financially stable, it's just, it's an amazing thing.
MATEEN: To end the cycle of poverty, education plays
such a huge role in that. And to know that I have some small part in that
means so much to me.
EUDORA: One of the things I love about our team
here is that we're interested in helping students figure out how to find the
right fit for them.
PHOEBE: I get to help people find their communities their homes where
they can grow and thrive.
JIMMY: And when you think about the entire process, one of us
might have been the one to even brought up NYU as a potential option. One
of us might have been the one that helped explain what the financial aid
process was like, maybe one of us even helped them with their essay.
ARIELLE: Applications make us laugh, they make us cry
CELESTE: So I don't think that they realize how real
this is for us and how real they are.
They're not numbers, they're not pieces of paper, they do become people for us.
ANNIE: At the admissions office, we make dreams come true.
STUDENT: [READING] On behalf of the admissions committee it's my honor and privilege
to share with you that you've been admitted to the College of Arts and Science--
[screams]
I got in!!!
ANNIE: I love my job.