Sam Joustra Email & Phone Number

Peabody College Graduate Admissions Office

I help manage the admissions e-mail account, answering prospective students' questions regarding Peabody and the application process. I also help input student and application data in Slate, the department-wide database for online applications. As an AmbassaDore, I assist in running campus events and I help connect with prospective students and introduce.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

I read applications part-time for the Vanderbilt University Undergraduate Admissions Office, assessing and making decisions for candidates and sitting in on committee meetings.

I assist in the College Counseling Office at Montgomery Bell Academy, a premier all-boys private high school in Nashville. Working primarily with the Director of College Counseling, I sit in on meetings with seniors as they shape their college lists, and I help refine application essays. I complete any data-gathering that needs to be done, including.

Springfield, Massachusetts Area

I managed a recruitment territory and traveled extensively in the fall seasons, meeting and interviewing high school students, as well as gave information sessions for prospective and admitted students and families visiting Hampshire. I reviewed applications individually and as part of a committee to make admissions decisions. I aided with the planning of.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

I met with seniors and juniors to talk about the college admissions process. I also input data into Naviance to manage student profiles and created college lists for students. In the spring I helped proctor and prepare AP exams.

I conducted interviews with prospective students which are both informational and evaluative. I also led information sessions for prospective students and families. Finally, I sat on committees that reviewed applications for admission decisions.

Goucher College

I led campus tours for prospective students and families and answered and directed phone calls to the Undergraduate Admissions office. I regularly data entered information into PowerCAMPUS, the school-wide database system.

Greater New York City Area

Read solicited and unsolicited manuscripts and wrote reader's reports. Was in constant communication with writers, and was responsible for accepting or rejecting manuscripts. Completed office tasks.

Greater New York City Area

Read solicited and unsolicited manuscripts and wrote reader's reports. Was in constant communication with writers, and was responsible for accepting or rejecting manuscripts. Completed office tasks.

Master'S Degree, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

Activities and Societies: AmbassaDore (student ambassador); graduate assistant in the Peabody College Office of Graduate Admissions.

B.A., English, French, Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Vice President of the Writer's Forum Club, Co-President of ATLAS- Goucher's annual study abroad magazine

Education record

Enrolled in rigorous courses in both French language and civilization, and phonetics

Education record