Scott Davis is a 37-year-old management professional from Austin, Texas. He comes from an engineering, management, and support background, and has worked for some of the largest corporations. He also has experience in the world of start-ups. Employers
include
Dell Computer Corporation, UUNET Technologies, Wayport, and Time Warner Cable. Scott is also on the advisory board of EFF-Austin.
Scott started his degree program in 2003, and had no prior college credit before jumping into the distance learning environment. He graduated in October 2007 having attained an A.A.S. in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Kaplan University.
Scott is now a MBA student at Norwich University.
Scott welcomes feedback and questions. Feel free to email him at sdavis (at) WheelCipher.net or visit his web site at http://www.ScottDavis.info
After taking a few weeks to gather the required documents for my application to Norwich, writing what I hoped was a great essay telling them why I wanted to be there, and submitting everything the day it was due (because I graduated from Kaplan that same day), I was in “waiting mode”.
I was told it would be about a week before I knew anything. But I did get verbal confirmation that they had all of my required documents and the package had been forwarded to the committee that reviews them.
After several days of waiting, the call finally came yesterday morning. I was sleeping when the call came in, but I checked my phone when I woke up. (I’m currently taking a few days of vacation out of town. Otherwise, I would have normally been at work). I knew why they were calling, and I obviously got back with them immediately.
I was hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. My advisor had told me at one time that they only accept about 40-50% of the people who apply. When I got in touch with him, he told me that I had been accepted to the program. I got in on my first try to my first choice! You can’t beat that!
In the coming days, I will have some program advisors and others call me to talk about the program (so I am told). I am really looking forward to that. All of this is pretty exciting for me.
Classes start on December 3, 2007 (about 3 weeks away). So I am going to have a very short vacation between my graduation from Kaplan and the start of my next journey.
Beginning in December, this blog will be archived for future reference, and I will maintain “My Norwich University Experience”. This should be fun.
On a side note, I got my final transcripts from Kaplan (the same ones that were sent to Norwich). My final GPA was 3.47. I will round up to 3.5 I was pretty happy about that. I worked hard over the four-year term. Now, it’s on to bigger and better things.
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Scott is a manager for a large media, communications, and Internet company in Austin, Texas. He's been in that position since June 2001. He has experience in the high-technology industry in management, engineering, and support positions with Dell Computer Corporation, UUNET Technologies, Wayport and others.
Scott started his degree program in 2003, and had no prior college credit before jumping into the distance learning environment. He graduated in October 2007 having attained an A.A.S. in Information Technology and a B.S. in Management from Kaplan University.
He is now a MBA student at Norwich University
Scott maintains his own blog at ScottDavis.info where he talks about business, education, politics, technology and society.