Every year Drew Admissions hosts two Open Houses for prospective students and their families to come visit and experience what Drew has to offer. Of course, they can’t give guests the real experience if they want to entice them to come here, so for those two days that the campus is open, Admissions pulls out all the stops and makes Drew the number one vacation destination for 24 hours.
If you were here for the last open house this past Saturday, you may have noticed some of these little changes as soon as you woke up. While normally it’s fairly quiet in the early morning, Admissions imported approximately 500 tropical birds that were released into the trees to create a colorful birdsong for guests to arrive to. On your way to breakfast, you might have been stopped to be gifted flowers by one of the Cherubs-For-Hire swinging around on a series of pulley systems to make guests feel welcomed.
Once inside Commons, maybe you noticed some slight changes. Instead of self-serve buffet style like usual, Drew hired the entire staff and cast of Ellen’s Stardust Diner to feed and entertain everyone. In addition, every table was equipped with a royally trained taste tester to ensure the food was delicious and free of food poisoning. (The prospective students will have plenty of that once they commit to Drew!)
During their visit, the students had the chance to meet and talk to professors who teach in the major they are interested in. The professors soothed the students’ concerns about how difficult college courses would be and gave each of them a warm hug, looked into their eyes, and told them, “I’m proud of you, champ. That’s never going to change.” If any of the students were interested in sports, they were carried through the gym on the shoulders of the entire athlete student body, and the captains of each team assured the students that they would be exempt from any hazing.
If you noticed any loud noises the night before in your dorm building, you may have been near the room that Admissions hired a professional Hollywood set decorating team to redesign. When potential students came to take a look at what the dorms look like, they were shown to this special showroom, designed to the specifications of Carly’s teenage bedroom in iCarly.
Lastly, when students and families visited Financial Aid, Drew handed out piles of solid gold to each person. (Of course, as we all know, this is Leprechaun’s Gold which will have already dissolved as soon as they left campus, but it created a very nice effect for touring students.)
If you missed all of this excitement, worry not, because there is one more Open House scheduled for this semester, if you think this one was exciting, just wait until you see the circus performers and trained personal masseuses Admissions is hiring for next time!
