Green Mountain College Application Instructions Thank you for your interest in Green Mountain College. The following instructions are designed to assist you with any questions that you may have in the course of completing this application for admission. Please type or neatly print responses to all relevant questions on the application. In addition, be sure to complete the personal statement. Sign and date the application, and return it together with a non-refundable $30 application fee. If your application is postmarked by December 31, the fee will be waived. TIMING Green Mountain College accepts applications and processes them on a rolling admissions basis. Once we have received all necessary information, admissions decisions are generally made in 10-15 days, and you will be notified by mail. TRANSCRIPTS AND TESTS First-time Freshmen: An official high school transcript, including your senior-year schedule, must accompany your application. In addition, if you are submitting test scores, your SAT or ACT exam scores should be forwarded to GMC from the testing service or via your official transcript. If you are opting not to submit test scores, you will be required to complete the Insight Portfolio (on pages 8 9) and submit a graded high school paper. Transfer Students: Official transcripts of all previous college work must accompany your application. For transfer students who have attempted less than 24 credit-hours of college work (at the time of application), an official high school transcript must also be provided. In addition, results from either the SAT or ACT exams are optional for those students who have attempted a minimum of 15 credit-hours. RECOMMENDATIONS All students applying for admission must provide at least one recommendation from a teacher or counselor. PERSONAL INTERVIEWS We highly recommend that students visit campus for a personal interview and tour. GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE CODES The following codes will help you throughout the admission and financial aid process. Please keep them for future reference. SAT: 3418 TOEFL: 3418 ACT: 4302 FAFSA: 003687 PROFILE: 3418 SUBMISSION OF MATERIALS All materials should be sent to: Green Mountain College Office of Admissions 1 Brennan Circle Poultney, VT 05764 If you have any questions or need additional information, please call 802-287-8000 or 800-776-6675; or Fax 802-287-8099; or e-mail admiss@greenmtn.edu 1
Green Mountain College Application for Undergraduate Admission PERSONAL DATA (please print or type) Legal Name: SSN: Last/Family First Middle (complete) Prefer to be called: Former last name(s) if any: Applying as a: q Freshman For: q Full-Time Study Gender: q Male q Transfer q Part-Time Study q Female q Home-schooled For the term of: q Fall q Spring Year Permanent Address: Number and Street City State Zip Code + 4 digit Country If different from above, please give your mailing address for all admission correspondence: Mailing Address: Number and Street Use until: City State Zip Code + 4 digit Country (Month/Day/Year) Phone at Permanent Address: Phone at Mailing Address: E-mail Address: Cell Phone (including area code): Birth date: Citizenship: q U.S./dual citizen (Month/Day/Year) (Including Area Code) (Including Area Code) If dual, specify other citizenship: q U.S. Permanent Resident Visa Citizen of: q Other citizenship: / (Country) (Visa Type) If you are not a U.S. Citizen and live in the United States, how long have you been in the country? The following items are optional: Place of Birth: Marital Status: City State Country First Language, if other than English: Language spoken at home: If you wish to be identified with a particular ethnic group, please check the following: Are you Hispanic/Latino? q Yes Hispanic or Latino (including Spain) q No Regardless of your answer to the prior question, please select one or more of the following ethnicities that best describe you. q American Indian or Alaskan Native (including all the Original Peoples of the Americas) Are you enrolled? q Yes q No If yes please enter Tribal Enrollment number: q Asian (including Indian subcontinent and Phillipenes) q Black or African American (including Africa and Carribean) q Native Hawian or other Pacific Islander (Original Peoples) q White (including Middle Eastern) 2
Are you a veteran of the US armed forces? q Yes q No Possible area(s) of academic concentration/major: q Or undecided: Possible career or professional plans: q Or undecided: Will you be a candidate for financial aid? q Yes q No If yes, the appropriate form(s) was/will be filed on: Will you be requesting veteran benefits? q Yes q No (Month/Day/Year) EDUCATIONAL DATA School you attend now: Date of entry: Address: ACT/CEEB code number: City State Zip + 4 digit Date of secondary graduation: Is your school: q Public q Private q Parochial College Counselor Name: Position: School Phone: School Fax: (Including Area Code) (Including Area Code) (Month/Year) List all other secondary schools, including summer schools and programs you have attended beginning with ninth grade. Name Location (City, State, zip) Dates Attended List all colleges at which you have taken courses for credit and list names of courses taken and grades earned on a separate sheet. Please have an official transcript sent from each institution as soon as possible. Name Location (city, state, zip) Degree Candidate? Dates Attended q If not currently attending school, please check here. On a separate sheet, describe your activities since last enrolled. Green Mountain College has a SAT/ACT optional admissions policy. If you elect not to submit your test scores, you must complete 3 short essays from the Insight Portfolio on page 8 and submit a graded high school paper. SAT I (or SAT) ACT Date Taken/ Math Writing Date Taken/ Math Writing To Be Taken Score Score To Be Taken Score Score Critical Reading Score Critical Reading Score Date Taken/ English Math Reading Science Composite To Be Taken Score Score Score Score Score Do you want your test scores to be considered during the admissions process? q Yes q No TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)_ IELTS (International Language Testing System) Date Taken/To Be Taken Score Date Taken/To Be Taken Score 3
FAMILY INFORMATION Mother s full name: Father s full name: Is she living? Is he living? Home Address, if different than yours: Street: Home Address, if different than yours: Street: City State Zip City State Zip Occupation: Occupation: Name of business or organization: Work Phone:_( ) College (if any): Degree: Year: Professional or graduate school (if any): Degree: Year: Name of business or organization: Work Phone:_( ) College (if any): Degree: Year: Professional or graduate school (if any): Degree: Year: If not with both parents, with whom do you make your permanent home? Please check if parents are: q Married q Separated q Divorced (date ) q Other Please give the names and ages of your brothers and sisters. If they have attended college, give the names of the institutions attended, degrees, and approximate dates: Name Age Institution Degree Date Attended ACADEMIC HONORS Briefly describe any scholastic distinctions or honors you have won: 4
EXTRACURRICULAR, PERSONAL, AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES (including summer) Please list your principal extracurricular, community, and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you. Include specific events and/or major accomplishments such as musical instrument played, varsity letters earned, etc. Check ( ) in the right column those activities you hope to pursue at GMC. To allow us to focus on the highlights of your activities, please complete this section even if you plan to attach a resume. Activity Grade level or post secondary (PS) Approximate time spent Positions held, honors won, or letters earned Do you plan to participate at GMC? 9 10 11 12 PS Hours per week Weeks per year WORK EXPERIENCE List any job (including summer employment) you have held during the past three years. Specific nature of work Employer Approximate dates of employment Approximate number of hours per week From To In the space provided below, or on a separate sheet if necessary, please describe which of these activities (extracurricular and personal activities or work experience) has had the most meaning for you, and why. 5
PERSONAL STATEMENT This personal statement helps us become acquainted with you as an individual in ways different from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. Please write an essay (250-500 words) on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. Please attach your essay on a separate sheet. 1. Write an essay about how your view of the world has changed as the result of a novel, movie, song, or another work of art or literature. 2. Describe an important issue facing your school, community, or region and what you believe should be done to address the problem. 3. Discuss your expectations for college. What are you most looking forward to, and what (if anything) worries you? I understand this application must be complete (transcript, a minimum of one teacher recommendation, standardized examination scores or alternative, and application fee) before any consideration can be given by the Committee on Admissions. I further understand that the $30 application fee, which must accompany this application, is not refundable. The undersigned agrees that the information furnished on this Application for Admissions form, together with all information received by the Office of Admissions as a result of this application from whatever source, shall be completely confidential and shall not be disclosed to anyone, including the candidate and their family, except that the Dean of Enrollment Management may, at her discretion, disclose any part or all thereof to such persons as she deems appropriate. Green Mountain College subscribes fully to all federal and state legislature and regulations (including the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Executive Order 11246, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Americans with Disabilities Act, and the IRS Anti-Bias regulation) regarding discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin in its programs and activities. In accordance with Vermont Statues Annotated, Title 16, Statue 176, Sections 1 (c) (1) (C), all colleges and universities in Vermont are required to inform candidates that credits earned at their respective institutions are transferable to other programs only at the discretion of the receiving school. Your signature below indicates that all information contained in your application is complete, factually correct, and honestly presented. Signature of applicant: Date: Insight Portfolio Green Mountain College allows prospective students to submit an Insight Portfolio and a graded high school paper instead of providing standardized test scores (SAT or ACT). Your short essays will help us to evaluate your candidacy for admission. Select three of the following prompts and write a brief (maximum 100 word) statement for each. Select prompts that will best reflect the qualities that you think will demonstrate your suitability for Green Mountain College. 1. Leadership. Describe one or more examples of leadership experience in which you have significantly influenced others or contributed to the success of a group over time. The experience(s) you describe may be in or out of school. 2. Creativity/specialized knowledge or skill. Describe a special interest that you have which makes you proud. Explain how you have demonstrated creativity in that area or developed a special talent or skill. 3. Dealing with adversity. Describe a significant challenge that you have had to face, the steps you took to address the challenge, and what you learned about yourself in the process. 4. Community service. What experiences have you had that contribute to making your community a better place in which to live? Mention specific projects or initiatives and outcomes. 5. Environmental awareness. Do you feel that the environmental liberal arts focus at Green Mountain College is a good fit for your interests? Why? 6. Goal accomplishment. Describe one or more specific goals that you set for yourself and how you demonstrated diligence and a strong work ethic to accomplish the goal(s). 6
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Teacher/Faculty Evaluation STUDENT Detach this form from the Application packet and fill in the information below. Give this form and a stamped envelope, addressed to the Green Mountain College Office of Admissions, to a teacher or faculty member who has taught you an academic subject. Student Name: Last/Family First Middle Address: Street City or Town State Zip TEACHER/FACULTY Green Mountain College finds candid evaluations helpful in choosing from among the highly qualified candidates. We are primarily interested in whatever you think is important about the applicant s academic and personal qualifications for college. Please submit your references promptly. This reference form, or another reference you may have prepared on behalf of the student is acceptable. You are encouraged to keep a copy of this form in your private files for future reference. We are grateful for your assistance. CONFIDENTIALITY We value your comments highly and ask that you complete this form in the knowledge that it may be retained in the student s file should the applicant matriculate at Green Mountain College. In accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, matriculating students do have access to their permanent files which may include forms such as this one. Colleges do not provide access to admissions records to applicants, those students who are denied admission, or those students who decline an offer of admission. Again, your comments are important to us, and we thank you for your cooperation. Green Mountain College is committed to administering all educational policies and activities without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or sex. The admissions process at private undergraduate institutions is exempt from the federal regulation implementing Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972. Please return this form to the Green Mountain College Office of Admissions in the envelope provided you by the student. (please print or type) Teacher/Faculty Name: Position: Institution: Address: Street City or Town State Zip BACKGROUND INFORMATION How long have you known this student and in what context? What are the first words that come to your mind to describe this student? List the courses you have taught this student, noting for each the student s year in school (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, college) and the level of difficulty (AP, accelerated, honors, I.B., elective, etc.) 8
EVALUATION Please feel free to write whatever you think is important about this student, including a description of academic and personal characteristics. We are particularly interested in the candidate s intellectual promise, motivation, relative maturity, independence, originality, initiative, leadership potential, capacity for growth, special talents, and enthusiasm. We welcome information that will help us to differentiate this student from others. RATINGS Compared to other students in his/her entire class, how do you rate this student in terms of: No Basis Creative, original thought Motivation Self-confidence Independence, initiative Intellectual ability Academic achievement Written expression of ideas Effective class discussion Disciplined work habits Potential for growth Below Average Average Good (Above Average) Very Good (Well above Average) Excellent (Top 10%) One of the top few encountered in my career Signature: Date: 9