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Sadie Nott graduated from Fieldston in 2008 and headed to Bowdoin College. \u201cI arrived at Bowdoin not having any idea what I would study, though I assumed it would be something in the humanities,\u201d she says. \u201cSophomore fall I took Drawing 101 and was hooked (this was the first studio art class I had taken since 7th grade!); suddenly I had found my major.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Nott is now the Assistant Director of Admission for Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. \u201cCollege admission work is cyclical\u2014in the fall I primarily recruit students, visiting college fair programs and high schools (I make a trip back to Fieldston each fall!). I\u2019m then responsible for reading all the applications from my territories, evaluating them, and making admission decisions.\u201d She chose this job after interning at the Bowdoin Office of Admissions during her senior year, \u201cmy primary responsibility was interviewing prospective students, which I just loved\u2014I loved the idea that talking about something you loved all day and inspiring others to find avenues for similar growth was, in fact, a job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before she dominated the Ultimate Frisbee scene at Bowdoin, Ms. Nott was a tri-season athlete – field hockey, basketball, and softball – at Fieldston. She was also an STS leader and even wrote for the Fieldston News.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look back far enough in the Fieldston News archives, you\u2019ll find a series of goofy Faculty Profiles that I put together with a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of her fondest memories of Fieldston weren\u2019t her athletic or academic achievements, but rather, the smaller ones, \u201csitting in Howie Waldman\u2019s office for advisory pumping our blood with baked goods, or the tons of laughter that emanated from our STS leader meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she is reading applications, she looks for \u201cstudents who have a heightened level of enthusiasm for intellectual engagement and for the passions that make them who they are. I want to find the kind of students who would make for thoughtful yet critical members of classroom discussion, who are the kind of roommates and teammates that you learn something from outside of the classroom. I\u2019m always really excited to see when someone has thoughtfully considered why Whitman specifically will be a good home for the next four years (essays in general are my favorite parts of the application to read.)\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course after reading so many applications, there are some red flags that pop up, \u201cI notice when an essay or a list of extracurriculars reflects not a student\u2019s genuine interests or beliefs but instead is based upon what she thinks an admission officer would like to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that she\u2019s experienced the \u201cother side\u201d of the college process, \u201cit seems to me that the level of stress surrounding the college process has only grown since I applied, and this is saying something, because I remember feeling pretty anxious about it all when I went through it.\u201d She wants to remind Fieldston students that, \u201cas an applicant to colleges, [you] should be getting something out of the process too. You can learn so much about yourself through selecting a college\u2014that\u2019s why it\u2019s called a search!\u201d<\/p>\n

In the seven years since she left, Ms. Nott\u2019s Fieldston education has stuck with her in all of her endeavors. \u201cAbove all, I credit Fieldston with giving me the tools to learn to think. I took these tools with me to college, where the campus became my studio. I\u2019ve also grown to see that Fieldston\u2019s emphasis on Ethical Culture has been much more impactful than I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s in store for Sadie Nott in the future?\u00a0 \u201cI imagine that within the next five years I will return to school\u2014I really miss being in the classroom. What I love most about my job is that I help people; I could see bringing this with me into fields outside of education too, but perhaps on the larger scale of entire cities or neighborhoods. We\u2019ll see!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadie Nott graduated from Fieldston in 2008 and headed to Bowdoin College. \u201cI arrived at Bowdoin not having any idea what I would study, though I assumed it would be something in the humanities,\u201d she says. \u201cSophomore fall I took Drawing 101 and was hooked (this was the first studio art class I had taken since 7th grade!); suddenly I had found my major.\u201d Ms. Nott is now the Assistant Director of Admission for Whitman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":3394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[],"coauthors":[94],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sadie-Nott-Cover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}