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Agenda for the GAC meeting, 1/12/2012
  • Review status
    • 452 complete and assigned, 25 missing material, 23 rejected due to low TOEFL, 2 rejected as incomplete.
      • 4 processed as off-cycle
      • 87 Admissible, sent for sector review
      • 58 Inadmissible, no further action.
      • Of those 145, 7 had a third review.
      • (Last year by now, we had 110 sent to sectors, 117 deemed inadmissible, with 49 third reviews).
    • Of the remaining 307:
      • 43 ready for decision
      • 22 Pending GAC 3rd review
      • 242 Pending initial GAC review
  • Review rejected minority/female candidates
    • Possibly reconsider:
      • Adrian Bullock – check with Martinez-Sanchez
      • Joseph Bynoe – Lozano says yes, increase to 2.
      • Eden Dahan – ask Dave Miller
      • Edwin Gomez – are the 1's just a result of the GREs? Seemed to do better at MIT. Double-check with Hamsa
    • Unlikely to reconsider:
      • Neeti Banerjee – weak letters, grades
      • Timothy Bright – grades just too low.
      • Angelica Ceniceros – weak letters, grades. Wardle confirmed his 2 is a weak 2.
      • Brittany Essink – grades not disastrously weak, GRE showed improvement. Wardle confirmed his 2 is a weak 2.
      • Esteban Maradona – grades low, Wardle confirmed his 2 is a weak 2.
      • Luz Maria Martinez Sierra – grades low, GRE low, letters not overwhelming.
      • Rochelle Mellish – double-check with Frazzoli. Nick says no.
      • Natalie Spenser — grades low, no academic letters.
  • Paulo Lozano : Sarah Seger and send Sara Jamil folder.
  • Prakash Shrestha : inappropriate contact with Beth. Need to look carefully about this candidate.
  • Issue with forged letters. Nick to contact letter writers of Dinesh Sivanandan
  • Open house : Open house is March 16th.
    • Beth presented a few issues with the open house.
    • Should we do the lunch differently? We already know 1.5 hours is too long, especially if only ten faculty are present.
    • Moe observed it is hard to mingle. Beth proposes a bigger room and a buffet, to give a way to mingle.
    • Two possibilities: bigger room with names on the tables, or standing tables with beer.
    • No closing reception this year: expensive, faculty don't go and the student are about to go out to dinner anyhow.
    • Karen to discuss with Jaime encouraging more faculty to be present. Another way to do this is to manage the student expectations: have the students make appointments with the faculty ahead of time. Great idea Paulo!
    • Can we offer the travel reimbursement to all students? Beth to send numbers to Karen, Karen to discuss to Jaime.
  • Sector meetings
    • Nick to send mail to faculty telling to start reading.
    • Nick to ask Sophia to start scheduling sector admissions meetings: Quentin/How, Sally/Hansman, Robin/Greitzer. Week of Feb 13-17th.
  • Need to get USAF academy rankings
    • Karen emailed on Dec 16th. No response yet.
  • Need to start collecting yield data.
    • Karen to send out email to faculty requesting yield data early next week.
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