American High Schools give UCC top marks
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American High Schools give UCC top marks
27.07.2011
College Admission Counsellors from California, Illinois, Massachusetts and Texas recently visited University College Cork (UCC). Following this campus visit, the counsellors will be in a position to recommend UCC to their high school students looking to take their full-degree overseas. The campus visits form part of a wider strategy by UCC to promote its reputation for excellence in teaching, research and student support in the USA.

Staff throughout the University and from all four Colleges met with the counsellors to describe UCC’s wide range of academic programmes and excellent student support services. All of the counsellors remarked on the passion of the people they met. Christy Weiss from Loyola Academy in Chicago, the largest Jesuit college preparatory high school in the US, was impressed by “the breadth and depth of the UCC and its people” and noted that “the campus is gorgeous, the city is vibrant and the relationship between them is symbiotic – but the truest asset is the unbridled passion of the people I’ve met.”

The visitors also spent time with UCC students from the USA and Ireland to hear first-hand accounts of university life in a vibrant and safe Irish city. Amy Selinger of Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in MA, where the top two American universities currently enrolling graduates are Harvard and George Washington University, said that she is “already looking forward to introducing UCC to her students” and added: “I have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the seemingly endless possibilities available for students at UCC. It is clear that the lively, engaged students and faculty create a community of learning that is hard to ignore.” Thomas Kulick of Strake Jesuit College Preparatory from Houston, Texas, agreed that UCC is a realistic option for many of his students with its offering of programmes that “offer high quality at a reasonable cost”. The most common adjectives used by the counsellors to describe the atmosphere, staff and students at UCC were “warm”, “friendly”, “welcoming”, “approachable” and “knowledgeable”.

Highlights of the programme included a demonstration of the latest applications being developed for the gaming industry and for medical use in UCC’s Virtual Reality Laboratory, a visit to the School of Nursing and Midwifery high-tech simulation wards and a tour of the Honan Chapel.  The counsellors also enjoyed evenings in Cork city centre, including a reading in the city’s newest performance space, the Triskel Christchurch.

Picture L-R: Christy Weiss, Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL; Adelaide Riordan Greco, Hopkinton High School, Hopkinton, MA; Thomas Kulick, Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston, TX; Dr Tim Walsh, UCC’s representative in New England; Amy Selinger, Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School, Cambridge, MA; Brian Garrigan, Ashland High School, Ashland, MA; Brice Campoverdi, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco, CA; Dr Mary O’Reilly, Josephinum Academy, Chicago, IL.

 

 

 

 



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