Prospective students and their parents at Senior Day: A to Zip on April 23 are led on a tour of the UA campus by a current student.
Visitors to The University of Akron have arrived in record number in recent months. In fact, more than 250 prospective students attended Senior Day: A to Zip on April 23 and 1,000-plus prospective freshmen attended the three 2010 Senior Day programs combined.
“This is a record attendance this year for these programs. The number of visitors to UA reflects a 5 percent increase over last year’s attendance and a 28 percent increase over 2008 program attendance,” says Diane Raybuck, director of admissions. “For all visitation programs combined, we have seen a 62 percent increase in the number of prospective freshmen attending our campus visitation day programs over the past five years.”
Raybuck adds that students from as far away as Arlington, Mass., and Hanover, Md., to Moncure, N.C., and Issaquah, Wash., attended the Senior Day programs this year to tour the Student Union, Student Recreation and Wellness Center, residence halls and other campus hot spots.
“More students are looking at The University of Akron as one of their top choices and for many, their first choice by their sophomore or junior year in high school,” Raybuck says.
Media contact: Denise Henry, 330-972-6477 or henryd@uakron.edu.