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>> My name's Jasenia [phonetic] Garcia.

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I graduated here from Millersville
University in 2013.

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I came as a business management major, and
I graduated with a bachelor of science.

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I'm currently, my role is
admissions counselor at Millersville.

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What I do is basically go to other
schools, recruit high school students,

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speak to perspective families, perspective
students, and try to get them involved into --

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and get them to come to Millersville
by giving them either a presentation

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or kind of giving them advice on
where to go or what major to choose,

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kind of along the lines of as a counselor.

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I speak with guidance counselors as well, and
I let them know a little bit about Millersville

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if they haven't heard of Millersville.

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Especially out-of-state recruitment,
that's pretty much what I do.

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About 8,000 students go to Millersville.

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We have a lot who apply and
about 1500 of them are freshman.

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A busy day, first thing I would do, let's just
say if I come in at 8 a.m., I would come in,

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make sure I have all my documents
ready, all the files ready,

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maybe if I have a high school
visit, I would have to travel,

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make sure of the travel times,
if there's no traffic.

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Sometimes I need to leave a little
earlier if there is traffic.

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So a regular day of an admissions counselor
is not a typical as everyone thinks it is just

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because we're always on the road.

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We're reviewing files.

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We tell a lot of the students we review in three
to four weeks, and we have to make that happen.

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So some students we have to call,
and so we're calling on the road.

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We're always reviewing files.

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We're letting them know if they're
missing anything or if we would

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like to see maybe their mid-term grades, SATs.

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So our schedule isn't as
prepared as everyone else's

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who works a nine to five or eight to five.

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Sometimes we're doing college fairs overnight,
or we have to stay overnight somewhere.

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So an admissions counselor's life is a little
different than everyone else thinks it is.