Princeton is represented in communities across the nation and world by a network of Alumni Schools Committees. In Princeton’s records, our group of over 30 men and women is designated “ASC 371.” We represent graduating classes as venerable as that of 1948 as and as recent as that of 2004.
Our committee’s mission is to represent Princeton to local high school students, and our primary activity involves contacting and interviewing applicants for undergraduate admission.
If this is your first contact with our Alumni Schools Committee, please drop me a line in response. I'd be very happy to acquaint you with the committee's work. Volunteering with the Alumni Schools effort requires a very modest amount of time. Our numbers are such that the typical member contacts and interviews one or two applicants each year. We conduct most of our interviews in January and February. We interview a relatively small number of early decision applicants in October and November.
Interviews themselves are uplifting experiences, opportunities to meet some wonderfully talented young people. Our committee’s approach and philosophy is to advocate for local applicants. Rather than gatekeepers, we are instead supportive individuals who offer some texture and personal detail, gained from a face to face meeting, that can amplify the students’ voluminous admissions files.
Finally, volunteering with the ASC is an opportunity - or excuse - to make contact with Princetonians past, present, and future.
Committee veterans have seen me write this before: whether we dream of “Going Back”, or feel a degree of relief that we won't have to relive the experience, we can keep in touch with the University’s spirit by representing it to a new generation. I hope you’ll plan to be part of Alumni Schools Committee work.
Many thanks,
David M. Thompson ‘74
Chair, Princeton Alumni Schools Committee 371 (Oklahoma City)
405-271-2229, ext. 48054
email: dave-thompson@ouhsc.edu