Pennsylvania BANNER Users Group

2007

Admissions Checklist – Online!

General Announcements:

Please turn off all cell phones/pagers/candy wrappers/small animals and children

If you must leave the session early, please do so as discreetly as possible

Please avoid side conversations during the session

Thank you for your cooperation

Lehigh Background Info

4700 Undergraduates, 2000 grads About 12,500 undergrad applications last

year Exclusively Common App (grad schools still

use Banner self-service application) 3 admissions deadlines

– Early Decision (Nov 15)– Early Decision II (Feb 1)– Regular Decision (Jan 1)

What IT needed to do to make this happen…

Create a way for all applicants to get PINs Create a view for admissions to extract PINs

for letters Some customization of self-service form Grant access to GOATPAC to select staff

What admissions needed to do…

Re-write acknowledgement letter Create webpage with instructions Lots of staff training

– For the person creating the letters– For the support staff answering phone calls

Rethink when we needed to send out missing item letters Create process to handle missing LIN/PINs or students

locked themselves out Keep security considerations in mind

DEMO

Letter Open Page

Open to the Floor

Questions Comments

Dana Stow, des9@lehigh.edu (functional)

Pauline Chu pyc1@lehigh.edu (technical)

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