Applying to college can be daunting, overwhelming, and frustrating. Colleges that use SlideRoom make the process easier and more streamlined, but you still need to know where to begin. With that in mind, we’ve created Tips for Getting Started as a New SlideRoom Applicant. Our new, easy-to-use guide will get you started by walking youRead More
Tag: Enrollment Management
Tag: Enrollment Management
High School Counselor’s Guide to SlideRoom
High School Counselors and Teachers often reach out to us with questions about how they can help students who will be using SlideRoom to apply to colleges and universities. Now, there’s an easy-to-use guide that any staff member can reference when guiding their students through the SlideRoom application process: The High School Counselor’s Guide toRead More
CommonApp Data Integration with Multiple SlideRoom Accounts
Many schools are beginning to ask for portfolios from across a spectrum of disciplines, not just the visual arts. These can include music, theater, architecture, science, engineering, film and many other departments. Because of this, larger schools with different departments and teams sometimes choose to have data integration with multiple SlideRoom accounts. This allows eachRead More
How Admissions Missed the Next Einstein
When Sabrina Pasterski was applying for undergraduate admissions, she was rejected by Harvard and waitlisted by MIT … until they saw a video of her building an airplane. Due to Sabrina’s persistence, this video was eventually seen by Professors Allen Haggerty and Earll Murman who strongly advocated for her. “Our mouths were hanging open afterRead More
When Makers Apply to College
MIT’s culture of making continues to expose how real-world projects seldom live within one distinct domain of knowledge. The practice of moving between disciplines and shifting perspectives creates new kinds of creative momentum — a learning ability MIT is looking for within their admissions process. The illustration above is a representation of their poly-math ethos, by NeriRead More
More Media Types and Sizes
We are proud to announce two new enhancements in regard to collecting media from applicants. These were prompted by requests for the system to handle longer videos and print quality images on occasion. This required accepting more media types and larger file sizes: File Types Images .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .tif, .tiff, .bmp, .tga VideosRead More