I had not even thought of using Asana externally until the 2019-2020 admissions cycle. We have always used an old fashioned status chart in google drive to track everything - and have actually had a lot of success with that approach - so I didn’t feel like I needed a new solution.

Then, one of our late start seniors applied to about a zillion schools and had about a zillion art portfolios to go along with the applications. It occurred to me that we needed something more sophisticated.. and she served as our test case! I then made a number of changes with transfer applicants, and made even more changes just recently after COVID-19, when all of our operations turned remote. I plan to introduce it to Class of 2021 students later this spring.

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