As most La Salle students know, the Falcon for a Day program is when a young student interested in attending La Salle can visit and get a first hand look at the school. According to La Salle’s Admissions Coordinator, Mrs. Keepes, being a Falcon for a Day is when one is “partnered with a student of similar interests and gets to experience a typical day here at La Salle. They not only see the classrooms, meet teachers, but they also get to experience our culture and community we offer here at La Salle.” Being a Falcon for a Day gives eighth graders, as well of older transfer students, the chance to get a full understanding of how each day will be.

This has been a very successful program and has brought in over 400 students a year, often consisting of 10-14 students a day. In many of the comments given by the visiting students on the applications given to them at the end of the day, they “commonly say one thing about the school: that La Salle is like one big family,” Mrs. Keepes says.

This program not only benefits the incoming and interested students, but it also helps the student ambassadors that took on the role to become a leader of the La Salle community. Being an ambassador at La Salle has many benefits, and making an 8th grader’s visit special is extremely important, and “I have to say,” Keepes explains, “GOOD ambassadors are KEY to a good visit.”

Ally Jansen, a senior at La Salle, has served as a student Ambassador all four years of her high school journey. “My favorite part about having a shadow is being able to show a future Falcon around and getting the opportunity to share my experiences at La Salle with them,” she said. “I continue to return as an ambassador because I love hearing about how excited and nervous they are to enter high school and experience similar things that I have. It reminds me of how I felt when I was coming into high school.”

“I love being an ambassador because I love representing my school,” junior Emmerson Smith said. “Having shadows is so much fun because they get to see what it is like to be a student at La Salle and I continue to come back because I am very lucky to have the opportunity to lead them through that experience.”

Getting to be a part of this extraordinary and unique experience as an ambassador is one that you should not miss. Although it is too late for this year, if interested for next year, make sure to sign up and contact Mrs. Keepes at [email protected]  for information on becoming a student ambassador.