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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1980
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nist Young,Although many colleges and uni
versities are hiring marketing firms
to design selling campaigns to attract
high school students to their cam
puses, Texas A&M University relies
| on former students to do its talking.
Dr. B.G. Johnson, assistant direc
tor of financial aid, said the pool of
college applicants has been shrink
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schools to compete for students.
However, he added, Texas A&M has
its best sellers in students and former
students who tell their friends and
relatives about the University.
University offices active in telling
high school students about Texas
A&M are the Office of School Rela
tions through college nights, the In
formation Center in Rudder Tower,
through campus tours, and the Stu
dent Financial Aid Office, through
scholarship programs.
Heaton Hall houses the Office of
[School Relations, soon moving to
JRudder Center near the Forum.
1 Staffed by Loyd Taylor, coordinator
pof school relations, and four Univer
sity representatives, the office coor
dinates visits to high schools and
junior colleges around the state.
Since Sept. 17, University repre
sentatives have visited 477 of the
approximately 1,250 high schools in
Texas, Taylor said.
All four representatives are gradu
ates of Texas A&M, Taylor said, be
cause “Texas A&M is unique in that
to have a full appreciation of the Uni
versity, you need to have gone
here.”
Sonia Ellis, Holly Musick, Rick
Crow and Kyle Crews, representa
tives for Texas A&M, spent a week
asking questions of members of va
rious University departments so
they would be able to handle any
question a prospective student
might ask.
He said the office tries to zero in
on students on an individual basis,
visiting as many as possible in their
high schools and either answering
their questions or referring them to
someone who can.
“We don’t give out propaganda,”
Taylor said. “We give out factual in
formation. We don’t want to deceive
anyone, so we don’t answer ques
tions we can’t answer.”
Johnson, in charge of University
scholarships, said his office encour
ages applicants by sending out
20,000 scholarship applications each
year. One is sent to every high school
student who sends his or her SAT
score to Texas A&M.
The University has many scholar
ship programs to attract students,
not only for good scholars, but for
minority and needy students as well.
Johnson said National Merit Semi
finalists who apply to Texas A&M are
sent personal letters from President
Jarvis Miller and Dean of Admissions
Edwin Cooper, inviting them to visit
the campus. Once they reach the
campus, however, they are given
essentially the same treatment as any
other visiting high school student.
Taylor said all prospective stu
dents and their parents are encour
aged to visit the University. This is
where the Information Center in
Rudder Center comes in.
Aria Gammon, Information Cen
ter coordinator, said the Office of
School Relations refers visiting stu
dents there. Gammon said the cen
ter sets up appointments for pros
pective students with nearly anyone
they want to see, from a department
head to an instructor, to answer
questions personally.
“We don’t give out propaganda.
We give out factual information.
We don’t want to deceive any
one, so we don’t answer ques
tions we can’t answer,” Taylor
said.
“We try to conduct all of the visits
on a very individual basis, ” Gammon
said.
For example, if a student needs
financial aid information, the center
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Aria Gammon, information cen
ter director, said the center sets
up appointments for prospective
students with nearly anyone
they want to see, from a depart
ment head to an instructor, to
answer questions personally.
appointments with advisers from
both departments.
Appointments are supposed to be
made two days in advance, Gammon
said, but several times the office has
set up appointments at the last mi
nute for students who showed up on
campus unexpectedly.
A large volume of students passes
through the Information Center
each year. For example, last April
the center helped 220 prospective
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12 group walking tours of the
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Spring is usually the busiest time
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Gammon said department heads,
counselors and many other Universi
ty officials give up much time every
week to talk to these visiting stu
dents. “If it were not for their will
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sible.”
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said this face-to-face approach with
prospective students sets Texas
A&M apart from other schools.
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