Paving the Way to Ashoka

At its core, our multi-faceted engagement with incoming students and families strengthens their pathways to Ashoka: through events, social media platforms, and one-on-one conversations.

Once an applicant has received an Offer of Admission, the next steps involve customised step-by-step guidance from the Office of Admissions to ease their transition to university. While most students research about Ashoka before applying, our live discussions, talks, and seminars offer a platform to bring to the limelight the various aspects of an Ashoka education. These sessions introduce to parents our multidisciplinary curriculum, commitment to holistic education, and the range of opportunities available to their children.

With the shift to online platforms over the past few years, hosting events online is equally significant. Students and parents join us from the comfort of their homes to understand the course structure and campus life, among other offices. In this year’s academic cycle, however, our hybrid engagement plan incorporated online and offline platforms to ensure parents and students can meet our team and leadership members in person. In these sessions, we invite guests such as students, alumni, and Ashoka parents to offer first-person insights and experiences.

While these sessions offer a chance to raise queries or alleviate any apprehensions; they also serve as a space to access and build community. At the end of these engaging sessions, students get to meet and interact with other students from their city joining Ashoka.

Apart from these group settings, we also make consistent efforts to facilitate and maximise one-on-one conversations. We achieve this by creating various modes of engagement such as phone calls, social media platforms: Instagram and Whatsapp as well as, office hours with student interns. Our interns bring to the conversations a much-needed student perspective creating a reliable network for incoming students to clarify both academic and residential queries.

These processes are initiated and executed for all four rounds of undergraduate admissions. This offers us the space to gradually engage the students and integrate them into a larger undergraduate cohort. This end-to-end assistance allows us to ensure each student and family’s queries are addressed and they are excited to shape their undergraduate experience at Ashoka University.