Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission Interviews

In this episode you will hear: (22:50) Susan and Mark discuss an article written by Charlotte West of the Hechinger Report: An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It's harder for women to get in Seeking gender balance, selective colleges are giving men an advantage in admission (hechingerreport.org) (01:01:10) Lisa and Mark discuss a Speakpipe question from Esther from Tennessee abo...

In this episode you will hear: ² Mark shares four Higher Ed updates ² Susan answers the Speakpipe question, Why does the College Board have so many fees? Cortnie ² Mark interviews Kirby MciIlyar, an expert on helping students and adults find their best majors and career matches-Part 2 of 3 Part 2-Preview o Kirby shares how smaller schools can be different from larger schools o Kirby shares what no...

In this episode you will hear: (17:30) Julia and Mark discuss an article written by Mari McQuaid, a former MIT admission officer entitled: 10 College Application Mistakes to Avoid. Last Thursday, Vince discussed four of the 10 mistakes in part 1 with Mark and this week, Julia finishes the remaining 10 reasons. 10 College Application Mistakes to Avoid | IvyWise (52:10) Lisa and Mark discuss a Speak...

In this episode you will hear: ² Mark shares highlights and lowlights of the 300 episodes of YCBK ² Lisa answers the Speakpipe question, What is the enrollment cliff? Tressa ² Mark interviews Kirby MciIlyar, an expert on helping students and adults find their best majors and career matches Part 1-Preview o Kirby shares her background, and she shares how she got involved in helping students figure...

In this episode you will hear: (08:58) Vince and Mark discuss an article written by Mari McQuaid, a former MIT admission officer entitled: 10 College Application Mistakes to Avoid. Vince will discuss four of the 10 mistakes in part 1 with Mark and Julie will finish the remaining reasons with part 2 of 2 next Thursday. 10 College Application Mistakes to Avoid | IvyWise (50:30) Lisa and Mark discuss...

In this episode you will hear: ² Mark shares highlights and lowlights of the 300 episodes of YCBK ² Lisa answers the Speakpipe question, How flexible are financial aid deadlines? Jamie from Montana ² Mark interviews Mitch Warren, Associate Vice Provost and Director of Admissions at Purdue University. Title: Understanding Purdue, 3 of 3 Our favorite way for you to leave a question or any message fo...

In this episode you will hear: (19:14) Susan and Mark discuss what colleges are doing about Chatbots like ChatGPT to prevent students from falsifying their work. They also speculate what admissions offices may do to address the potential for falsification of work through Chat GPT Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (50:30) Lisa a...

In this episode you will hear: Mark shares a half dozen Higher Ed updates. Lynda answers the Speakpipe question, How to evaluate what engineering programs are a good match for your kid Mark interviews Mitch Warren, Associate Vice Provost and Director of Admissions at Purdue University. Title: Understanding Purdue, 2 of 3 Preview of Part 2 Mitch explains whether you can transfer to Purdue's most co...

(12:38) Dave and Mark discuss an article in the Tulane University admission blog by the Director of Admission Engagement, Owen Knight. The article was written on Sept 16, 2022 and it is entitled, "What's the Deal with engagement". Mark and Dave discuss what engagement is and they discuss how important is engagement at Tulane and other universities What's the Deal with "Engagement"? | Undergraduate...

In this episode you will hear: Mark shares a half dozen Higher Ed updates. Mark interviews Mitch Warren, Associate Vice Provost and Director of Admissions at Purdue University. Title: Understanding Purdue, 1 of 3 Preview of Part 1 Mitch tells us how he got into collegeadmissions;he explains the jobs he had before he got his current job and he tells us about his family and his favorite hobby. Mitch...

In this episode you will hear: (16:05) Dave and Mark discuss an article in Higher Ed Drive by Jeremy Bauer entitled, "7 higher-educational trends to watch in 2023. (44:28) Lisa and Mark discuss a question Laura from Maryland sent in via Speakpipe: Why does the Common Data Set only report the English and the Math sections for the ACT; does this mean colleges don't value the Reading and Science sect...

In this episode you will hear: Mark shares higher ed updates on five different topics Mark interviews Hillary Dickman, the Assistant Director of Admissions at Colorado College on the topic of, "What is FERPA and how does it relate to your student" Our favorite way for you to leave a question or any message for us is to put speakpipe.com/YCBK in your browser and take up to 90 seconds to leave a mes...

In this episode you will hear: (26:36) Julia and Mark discuss who are the students that are driving up the number of applications at selective colleges? What can we learn by a recent study that looks at the college application patterns of students. https://www.highereddive.com/news/common-app-high-sat-private-school-application-increase/638459/ (45:24) Lisa and Mark discuss a question Tricia from...

In this episode you will hear: Mark lets listeners know what are the 16 blog articles that Mark and Lisa have written so far. Mark interviews Hillary Dickman, the Assistant Director of Admissions at Colorado College on the topic of a creative way to see how many spots are available at selective schools for a student that is similar to your child Our favorite way for you to leave a question or any...

In this episode you will hear: (15:42) Evan Mandery writes for Mother Jones in an article that went live on 10-31-2022. The article looks at what it refers to as, "The dirty secrets of elite college admissions". The article is officially titled, "The Supreme Court is about to kill affirmative action: Just not for rich white people. We had close to 10 people send in this article to us and ask us to...

In this episode you will hear: Mark shares six Higher Ed updates on topics as wide-ranging as Rick Singer, Hillary Clinton, Ron DeSantis, US News and World Report and Columbia University Mark interviews Hillary Dickman, the Assistant Director of Admissions at Colorado College on the topic of how the Early Decision 2 round is different from the Early Decision 1 round Preview-Part 1 Hillary shares t...

In this episode you will hear: (11:50) Mark and Susan discuss the article by Brennan Barnard and Rick Clark in degreechoices.com entitled, "College Search-A Point-Counterpoint. Brennan argues against Student Search and Rick argues in support of Search. College search: a point-counterpoint - Degreechoices.com (51:10) Lisa and Susan answer a question about whether a student should disclose their chr...

In this episode you will hear: Mark shares all the things that listeners do that inspire the co-hosts to keep producing 10 hours a month of new content for you Mark shares what a panel of experts from the American Council of Education felt were the biggest issues in Higher Ed in 2022 Mark interviews Gus Resendiz of Massachusetts, "Avoiding the pot holes in athletic recruiting" Part 2 of 3 Preview...

In this episode you will hear: (14:30) Mark and Dave discuss Stephen Marche's December 6th 2022 article in the Atlantic entitled, "The College Essay is Dead". Dave and Mark debate the merits of this argument https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-ai-writing-college-student-essays/672371/ (32:30) Mark and Lisa answer our first two speakpipe questions that were sent in. Eric...

In this episode you will hear: Mark shares 5 Higher Ed Updates that all have to do with college finances Mark interviews Gus Resendiz of Massachusetts, "Avoiding the pot holes in athletic recruiting" Part 2 of 3 Preview of Part 2 Gus talks about how prevalent injuries are and Mark shares a heart wrenching story about his daughter's grueling injury Gus talks about his own athletic experience in hig...

In this episode you will hear: (18:46) Mark and Julia discuss an article from Stephanie Saul that appeared in the New York Times updated on October 31st entitled, "Elite Colleges' Quiet Fight to Favor Alumni Children" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/legacy-admissions-colleges-universities.html (41:30) Mark and Lisa answer our first two speakpipe questions that were sent in. Eric from Iowa ha...

In this episode you will hear: Mark shares 10 Higher Ed Updates Mark interviews Gus Resendiz of Massachusetts, "Avoiding the pot holes in athletic recruiting" Preview of Part 1 Gus gives his backstory, including his time in college, his time in law school and his time as an attorney Gus explains how all three of his kids went through the athletic recruitment process Gus describes how scholarships...

In this episode you will hear: (24:43)Mark and Vince discuss two articles. The first one is a Forbes article by Brennan Barnard entitled, "College Admissions: Thanks in Advance" The second article appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on October 1, 2022 by Susan Snyder and the article is entitled, "Want to get into Penn? Show a little gratitude—on an essay prompt. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bren...

In this episode you will hear: Mark gives an overview of his visit to nine colleges in southern California Mark shares five new Higher Ed Updates Mark interviews Vern Granger, Director of Admissions at the University of Connecticut and Chairman of the Board at NACAC-Part 2 of 2 Preview of Part 2 Vern explains what ACES is, ACES is an acronym that stands for Academic Center for Exploratory Students...

In this episode you will hear: (01:48) Mark and Susan discuss the first of three reports by Educational Reform Now entitled, "The Future of Fair Admissions Report 1: Early Decision". The Report was written by the Senior Policy Analyst, James Murphy. The Report looks at a number of questions including: Who benefits from Early Decision; which colleges utilize Early Decision the most; does ED give st...