Spring is almost here which means admissions will be hosting a lot of visitors on our campuses in the coming weeks for Saturday information sessions, daily tours, open houses, and admitted student sessions. Special thanks to those of you who are helping admissions with these events. If you see visitors walking around campus, please give them a big Vermont State University welcome. Most of these students are using their visit to determine where they will enroll in the fall. Others are just beginning their search for enrollment in 2024.
Spring also means that our admission team is back on the road recruiting for future terms. There are 159 events that VTSU will be in attendance at this spring all over the northeast. This combined with fall travel totals over 900 events since September. Reports from recent National College Fairs in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Rochester indicate that our new brand is well received with hundreds of students stopping by our table to inquire! We are also happy to report that the graduate program application is live and on our website as of March 1st!
Financial Aid is very busy preparing offers for new students and answering questions from families. The new system is up and running, and the team is preparing to begin awarding current/returning students later in the spring. Please encourage all students, new and returning to make sure they fill out their FAFSA as soon as possible and list VTSU’s code 003698. We would also like to remind everyone that the returning student scholarship application deadline has been extended to March 24th. Please encourage your students to apply if they have not done so already! As a reminder, new student scholarship awarding parameters and tuition and fee information for the 2023-2024 academic year can be found at the following links:
Tuition and Fees – https://vermontstate.edu/admission/tuition-and-fees/
New Student Scholarships – https://vermontstate.edu/admission/financial-aid/types-of- financial-aid/scholarships/
Spring also means that our teams are busy collaborating with colleagues across our university to prepare for welcoming and onboarding our new students this summer. For general information regarding admitted student next steps, please visit the link below. We continue to build out the new VTSU instance of Slate every day by adding more differentiated communication campaigns, new events, reporting capabilities, and building out the new student enrollment checklist that is dependent on connecting Slate with other university department systems.
All in all, we still have a lot of work to do, however we are making great strides towards welcoming the inaugural incoming class of Vermont State University!