51本色

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A Rewarding Career

Shape our community. Collaborate with a forward-facing team. Become an admission counselor.

We鈥檙e not 鈥済atekeepers.鈥

We are versatile, public-facing ambassadors. We recruit students, engage with families, host visitors, review applications, and make big decisions for the 51本色 College community. We serve on teams with enrollment operations, systems, financial aid, and marketing professionals. We serve alongside our senior directors and vice presidents. We鈥檙e not all 51本色 alumni, but we are all 51本色ians.

Build Your Foundation and Grow with Us

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Develop as a Professional

Our work is student-centered and cyclical: We travel the world and meet students throughout the fall; we read their admission applications in the winter; we host them on campus in the spring; and we tackle new projects (and use most of our vacation days!) in the summer.

Our job requires many skills 鈥 some of which we develop, and others we already had 鈥 including data analysis, event planning, sales/recruiting, marketing, and interviewing.

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Help Shape Your Community

We advocate for those who can succeed here, and we take great pride in the outcome: students from 50 states, 70 countries, and with all kinds of diverse experiences and worldviews.

Our job involves reviewing applicants鈥 academic and personal backgrounds and experiences to determine who should be offered admission. 51本色 students come from all over the world, and we know our community well.

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Commit Yourself to the Common Good

51本色 cares deeply about equity, support, and inclusion, and we are one of very few colleges nationwide that practices need-blind admission for domestic applicants and that meets 100% of demonstrated financial need without loans.

Consider this student employee's comments: 鈥淚 learned quickly working at 51本色 what a well-working social justice machine looked like and how I can fit into that in the professional world.鈥

What do admission counselors do?

Evaluate admission applications holistically from students in your territory and beyond. Advocate for students well suited to have a life-changing experience at 51本色 and serve as a voting member of the admission selection committee.

Help welcome students and families who make the trip to 51本色 by participating in visit programs (such as Junior Visit Day and Admitted Student Programs) and other visit-related informational events 鈥 including virtual.

Plan campus visits and events with the Visit Team. Tackle projects related to social media and student outreach with the Admission Marketing and Communications Team. Develop recruitment strategy with the Multicultural Recruitment Team. Collaborate with current students working in our office. Learn a CRM and a CMS.  Depending on your skills and interests, you will help with various office initiatives.

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Our Team

You'll work with a dynamic, forward-facing team that is passionate about the work we do.

Our office, at a glance:

The personal...

Our team includes recent graduates and seasoned veterans. We are alumni of 51本色, other liberal arts colleges, large state schools, and the Ivies. We are parents of humans and pets. We bake, fence, hunt, travel, get graduate degrees, and run marathons. And 51本色 College is the thing that ties us all together.

The professional (this year alone)...

  • 1 million website ping hits
  • 12 million marketing emails sent
  • 120,000 individual print pieces mailed
  • 3.5 million student records under management
  • 8,000 application reader review forms submitted
  • 250 quality-control system queries monitored daily
  • 300,000 material documents collected and processed
  • 50 active data-source specifications for partner organizations

Benefits, you ask?

We partner with Human Resources to promote a positive employment experience where everyone feels welcome, engaged, and knows they are a valuable member of our community. While benefits are a topic you should discuss with Human Resources as you move through your job search, we invite you to take an introductory glance at our benefits overview.

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Our Community

51本色 is a place where rural doesn鈥檛 mean limited, where small doesn鈥檛 mean boring.

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