Stories about "admission"
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Slideshow: Admission tour guides share their favorite Bates places
Friday, August 20, 2021 6:48 am
We asked nine Admission interns: What’s your favorite Bates place and why? The photographs and text below provide the answers.
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Ask the College Experts: Tips on writing an effective recommendation letter
Thursday, March 25, 2021 9:43 am
In offering tips to prospective recommenders, Bates Director of Admission Darryl Uy has one key message: Be easy on yourself.
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Ask the College Experts: How to describe activities in pandemic
Thursday, March 18, 2021 11:51 am
The Bates experts give advice to high schoolers worried that the activity section of their college application has taken a hit during the pandemic.
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‘Wow!’ Bates Admission video series wins national communications award
Friday, June 26, 2020 12:20 pm
Produced in-house at Bates, the award-winning video series sheds light on the college search, application, and financial aid process with wit, warmth, and candor.
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Video: The importance of shower shoes and other advice to new Bates students
Friday, August 30, 2019 9:06 am
If you could go back in time, BatesNews asked eight seasoned Bobcats, what tips would you give your first-year self?
![Bates alumni Elizabeth Merrill '00 and Lawson Rudasill '00 were married in the Bates College Chapel, with a "first look" and Ketubah (marriage contract) signing at Lake Andrews, followed by a cocktail hour in Commons' Fireplace Lounge, and a reception in Pettengill Hall's Perry Atrium.The ceremony officiants were Cynthia Link '00 and Ed Pauker '00.](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2019/06/2-180818_Rudasill_Merrill_Wedding_1003-400x267.jpg)
The 10 most-viewed Bates News stories of the 2019 academic year
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 5:40 pm
As the college year ticks down, here are the 10 Bates News stories, from last August to now, with the most page views.
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Applications to Bates College set record for second consecutive year
Thursday, February 28, 2019 5:31 pm
For the incoming Class of 2023, Bates received a record-setting 8,222 applications, 7 percent ahead of last year’s total, also a Bates record.
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Now on our doorstep, the Class of 2022 ‘represents Bates College history’
Friday, August 24, 2018 8:00 am
Selected from the largest applicant pool in college history, the 550 members of the Class of 2022 arrives on Monday.
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College search advice, practical and heartening, from Bates admission experts
Friday, June 15, 2018 10:43 am
From big-picture goal setting to the do's and don'ts of the college essay, three Bates experts offer advice for the college search.
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Video: Student athletes present their research at Mount David Summit
Friday, March 30, 2018 12:59 pm
Bates student athletes excel on the field and in the classroom. Hear from three of the more than 50 who participated in this year's Mount David Summit.