Making a Decision
Hello, and welcome to a “How To” on
making a decision for an applicant.
To begin with, you will want to go to
the Hobson’s webcenter,
http://webcenter.applyyourself.com
and log-in.
If you are unable to log-in, or forgot
your id/password, please contact
lisa.pane@uconn.edu or
ryan.sayers@uconn.edu
The first thing we will want to do,
is get over to the search for
applicants, to find the particular
applicant you want to admit.
I’ve skipped over the search
page step, to see this please
look at the “Basics of
Searching” powerpoint, so for
now, let’s assume we’ve
searched and SDFSDF is our
applicant we want to admit.
Click on the highlighted name
of the applicant to open the
“Applicant summary screen”.
This is the applicant summary
screen.
It will show a lot of basic
information. For the purposes of
this powerpoint, we will assume
that your faculty reviewer’s have
indicated they want to admit this
applicant.
To get to the department
decision panel, click on
the underlined “Graduate
School Application” in the
top right corner.
This will expand out the
application, as illustrated
on the left.
To enter the “Admission
Decision” section click on
the link located on the
right hand side.
This is the admission decision
section.
There will probably be a few
items of data already in this
section, primarily, the PS ID,
and the PS application
number.
To Admit/Deny or make any
decision on this applicant, use
the drop-down bot next to
“Admission Decision”.
Once you press save, this dialog
box will pop up every time.
You MUST press ok, and not
cancel.
Pressing ok allows certain business
rules to run, which checks to make
sure that this applicant is ready for
a decision to be made.
Oh no! I pressed Ok and this pop up came up!
Don’t worry it’s ok. This means the applicant is missing PRIMARY materials
from their applications. Typically this means they have not submitted their
unofficial transcripts. If you receive this message shoot the grad school an
email and we can work with you to get a decision on this applicant.
Let’s say they have all of their
appropriate data.
There are some fields required for
decisions.
These are:
Admission Decision
Deny Reason (if the decision is deny)
Advisor
Applicant Admitted For:
Funding With Admission
Admit Term
Digital Signature (who is entering the
decision)
Date Decision Made:
Once you’ve successfully made a
decision, it will take a bit of time
before the applicant’s are
officially accepted or denied.
This time varies depending on
the time of year.
Making a decision is one of the most important communication tools a
department has to talk to the graduate school.
In order to expediate the process, please make sure all required fields are
filled in and accurate.
Any further questions regarding making a decision please contact
lisa.pane@uconn.edu or ryan.sayers@uconn.edu
Every department handles decision making differently, please make sure that
only the appropriate people in each department enter the decisions into
hobson’s.
In person Demo’s are available.