Holiday Season is Upon Us and so is our First INSTANT Admission Day for Transfer Students

The students have just headed home to spend Thanksgiving with their families and relax before the pre-finals frenzy in early December. We are excited to celebrate the season with Holiday Weekend, held on December 5th and 6th. Friday night students will participate in the Holiday Banquet, a time honored tradition where students sit with and are served a traditional holiday meal by their favorite professors. Saturday marks the much-anticipated Holiday Ball, a semi-formal event for students to dance the night away. We look forward to seeing everyone there!

The Elmira College Admissions Staff is also thrilled to announce its first-ever Instant Admission Transfer Student Day on Saturday, December 5 from 9:00a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Students interested in transferring to Elmira College need only to bring a completed application and transcripts from all colleges attended previously and our counselors will provide an instant admission decision and credit evaluation. Also, if students bring a 2009-2010 Student Aid Report (a copy can be printed at FAFSA.ed.gov), we will be able to estimate their financial aid eligibility! To register for the event, please contact the Office of Admissions at (607)735-1724 or register online at www.elmira.edu/admissions/transfers

Trick-or-Treaters Rush Columbia Hall

Happy Halloween! For the annual Columbia Hall Halloween event, EC welcomed nearly one thousand children to Trick-or-Treat throughout the dorm and brave the spooky haunted house created in the main lounge. EC offers this community service each year, with no charge. More than 200 pounds of candy was donated by the residents of Columbia Hall, faculty, and administrators of Elmira College for the event. Even with this much candy, volunteers ran out twice, and had to make two candy runs to keep up with demand! The trick-or-treaters looked great; the best outfit of the night, hands down, was a duo dressed as the Mario brothers. There were even a few dressed as Michael Jackson!

Columbia Hall Resident Life Coordinator Amber Wing ’09 would like to thank the more than fifteen students and administrators who helped out with the haunted house, and all of her residents who volunteered to hand out so much candy for the record-setting three-hour Halloween event!