Yesterday, we hosted a performance by Speak About It, a theater group focused on performances about consent, boundaries and healthy relationships. Although this performance was targeted to our undergraduates, everyone in the campus community was invited to attend. In our Student Activities Center, they performed for a terrific turnout of students, faculty, and staff. This…
Admitted Student Event – Part 1
This is a joint post by Todd Cooley, Assistant Director of Admissions (Annapolis, MD) and Natalie Blais, Associate Director of Admissions (Santa Fe, NM). This Saturday, I got to fly out to see our Santa Fe campus for the first time. I came to help out for the first of three Admitted Student Events held…
Annapolis Film Festival Brings Downton Abbey Star to Campus
This past weekend marked the 6th annual Annapolis Film Festival, with 70 films shown over the course of the four day festival. Several of those films were shown in our own FSK auditorium, including a Saturday Night screening of “A Crooked Somebody,” starring Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt. Froggatt, who won a Golden Globe and received three…
Snow Day!
Happy Springtime from Annapolis! Winter decided to hang around for just a little longer, giving us our first snow day of the year on the second day of Spring. Click through to see a slideshow of a snowy campus!
Pi(e) Day
We all know that 3.14 is Pi Day, but have you ever wondered or learned about the man who had discovered the concept? According to many sources, it was a Greek Mathematician named Archimedes – somebody we read right here in our program! Mathematics is a part of academic life here at St. John’s – it’s…
4 Flights, 3 Days, 8 Meetings
Admissions counselors travel a lot! Part of our job is to visit high schools across the country to meet with students, counselors, even teachers. We also travel to conduct interviews with applicants. This past week I got to travel to Northern California’s South Bay area. My strategy was to focus a quick trip around a…
Coffee Shops of Annapolis
One of the advantages of having campuses in two fantastic college towns is great local coffee! Here are a few of our student’s favorites in Annapolis. All of these coffee shops are within a ten minute walk of campus (and most are closer to five). 49 West–A coffee shop and cafe with late hours and…
Student Protests and Admission
At St. John’s, we read revolutionary books. From Socrates to Hamilton, the great thinkers in our curriculum challenged their societies to address the serious social problems of the day. Students who peacefully protest follow in this tradition. St. John’s Admissions does not penalize any applicant who peacefully protests, even if the student is disciplined by…
Regular Decision!
On Friday, over 300 students got great news: they are admitted to St. John’s! When combined with the other admitted students who applied early action, these potential future Johnnies are pretty stellar. They come from 49 countries including Afghanistan, China, Ghana, Greece, Mauritius, Mongolia, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. They attend over 500 different…
Senior Essays are in!
Senior essays have been turned in on both campuses! After a month hard and work reading, writing, editing, re-writing, and more writing, the seniors were ecstatic to turn in the product of their hard work to the president’s office on each campus. You can read more about the senior essay, and why it’s so…
The Chalkboard 