UMaine Gearing Up for New-Look Admissions Open House
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — As the University of Maine prepares to welcome its new first-year students later this month, an informative, exciting, lively Monday Aug. 23 open house will signal the start of the 2010-2011 student recruitment and admissions cycle.
Labeled “Summer Tour 2010,” the event represents a new approach to the traditional open house. Prospective students and their families will have ample opportunity to learn about UMaine academic programs and other elements of the UMaine student experience, but their experience will be enhanced by a lunchtime cookout and a performance by Atlantic Clarion, the popular steel drum band from Brooksville. They will also be part of the largest open house group — by far — that UMaine hast hosted.
The event is scheduled for the UMaine Mall from 9 a.m.-2 p.m., with the Student Recreation and Fitness Center set as a rainy-weather alternative location.
Early registrations indicate strong interest among students from Maine and other states who will be high school juniors and seniors this fall. While a total of 535 people attended last year’s August open house, 915 are registered for Summer Tour 2010. Registration is no longer open for this event.
“We are both gratified and excited by the tremendous interest in this event,” says Susan Hunter, UMaine’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “This response indicates broad appreciation for UMaine’s quality and value, and we look forward to presenting an informative, enjoyable program for our guests.”
In addition to the barbecue and live music, students and their families will have opportunities to learn more about admissions and financial aid, to take campus tours, to explore academic programs, to speak with current UMaine students and to meet their potential future UMaine classmates.
Those who enroll in the fall of 2011 will be members of the Class of 2015, UMaine’s sesquicentennial class.