CALVIN HALL—Administrators in the UI’s Office of Admissions work year-round to optimize the criteria on which incoming freshmen are selected and hand-pick only the applicants who meet them and display potential to surpass them.
The incoming class this fall semester, the Class of 2015, has “really blown us away,” says Associate Director of Admissions Kurt Franklin.
UI administrators and faculty across campus agree that they’re really just tired of having to deal with freshmen.
“I have very high hopes all the amazing Facebook creeping these young leaders are capable of,” UI physics professor Robert Mernilo told The Iowa Iowan.
UI journalism professor Frank “Frankie Ding-Dong” Durham says that forty-five hundred freshmen on Facebook for the average three hours a day means “Iowa’s most fertile minds will have one million, three hundred fifty thousand hours to creep on the other freshmen they’re too intimidated to talk to this fall.”
“These are promising numbers,” says Durham. “We owe great thanks to the Admissions office. I think I speak for most of my colleagues when I say we’re just completely done dealing with freshman.”
