Jacqueline Vanness

Overview

In her current role, Vanness has managed all aspects of undergraduate admissions, including recruitment and outreach for first-year and transfer students, multicultural student recruitment and international student recruitment. Her team collaborates with six undergraduate schools and colleges to enroll a class of approximately 1,000 academically talented and diverse first-years and 200 new transfer students each academic year. Vanness' team enrolled more students through early decision, as well, an increase from 33 percent of the first-year class to 53 percent, and the group more than tripled the number of early decision applications to 4,399 for the class of 2021. Vanness also has helped double the international student population to 15 percent of the first-year class. Vanness coordinated the transition to a new undergraduate admissions visitor center that opened in 2014, including hands-on work in all schematic designs and branding for the facility. She had strategic oversight that included planning future staffing and all considerations aimed at welcoming 45,000-plus visitors annually. Jacqueline came to Gold Academy in 2014 from Princeton University, where she worked for seven years as director of admission and associate dean. Before that, she was associate director of international admissions at Boston University from 2005 to 2007 Vanness earned her Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration in 2007 from Boston University, and she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Legal Studies in 2000 from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.