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

In this episode you will hear: (12:58) In this week's "In the news segment", a June 1st, 2021 article from Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. The article is entitled, "Legacy Admissions Banned in Colorado" " The article looks at the research that led to the decision by the governor of Colorado to become the first state to ban legacy admissions. Dave and Mark present the argument for and against le...

In this episode you will hear: (20:10) In this week's "In the news segment", an article from Arvind Ashok of the New York Times. The article is entitled, "The Persistent Grip of Social Class on College Admissions" " The article looks at the research that was based on studying 60,000 essays from authors affiliated with the Student Narrative Lab at Stanford shows that essay content. The research sho...

In this episode you will hear: (09:35) In this week's "In the news segment", an article from Scot Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. The article is entitled, "Where do Public Research Universities Recruit Students" The article looks at the research that was based on studying 15 universities websites that reveal the high schools they will be visiting for the school year. The article reveals some surprisi...

In this episode you will hear: (07:08) In this week's "In the news segment", an article from Ron Lieber of The New York Times. The article is entitled, "High Schools Are Producing Their College Lists. Don't be misled." The article talks about how in some high schools, there is so much buzz and emphasis on the list of where kids go to college. Mark and Dave talks about why this is an unreliable way...

In this episode you will hear: (07:37) In this week's "In the news segment", an article from Karen Fischer from the Chronicle Higher Education. The article is entitled, "The employer mismatch". The article looks at study done in partnership with The Chronicle and America's Public Media marketplace that looks at the disconnect between what employers look for when they hire college grads and what st...

In this episode you will hear: (07:02) In this week's "In the news segment", an article from Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. The article is entitled, "Test-optional admissions yields benefits." The article looks at a paper on the topic was published in the American Educational Research Journal. The paper, by Christopher T. Bennett, who is finishing up his doctorate at Vanderbilt where he is stu...

In this episode you will hear: (15:18) In this week's "In the news segment", an article from Jon Marcus of The Hechinger Report. The article entitled, "Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to micro credentials. The article looks at how organizations like Western Governor's, edX and BYU Pathway worldwide are offering two to three month online courses in areas that make employee...

In this episode you will hear: (13:24) In this week's news segment, an article from Brennan Barnard of Forbes. The article entitled, "College Admissions: Do you belong". The article looks at the ways in which the pandemic is creating widespread problems like loneliness,anxiety and depression. Mark and Dave discuss the social impact of the pandemic on students but they spend most of their time talk...

In this episode you will hear: (12:10) In this week's news segment, an article from Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. The article looks at the ways in which former Temple business school dean, Moshe Porat, manipulated the data in order to help Temple climb up in the rankings. Mark and Dave have a conversation about what students and parents can learn from this debacle. https://www.insidehighered....

In this episode you will hear: (09:08) In this week's news segment, an article from New York Times "Supreme Court Seems Ready to Back Payments to Student-Athletes", by Adam Liptak. Justices across the ideological spectrum teamed up during Supreme Court oral arguments to voice skepticism about the N.C.A.A.'s position that it could bar relatively modest payments to student-athletes in the name of am...

In this episode you will hear: (09:09) In this week's news segment, an article from College Transitions "Is There a Bias Against Asian College Applicants". As an Asian teenager, or parent of one, you've likely heard that Asian students are at a disadvantage in the admissions process at elite American colleges and universities. As a first order of business, this article explores whether that this b...

In this episode you will hear: (15:25) In this week's news segment, an article from The Hechinger Report "Poll Nearly half of parents don't want their kids to go straight to a four-year college", by Jill Barshay. Fewer American parents are dreaming of sending their kids off to a four-year college immediately after they graduate from high school, signaling both a deepening political divide over the...

In this episode you will hear: (10:01) In this week's news segment, an article from Inside Higher Ed "Do Top Colleges Favor Applicants Who Are Extremely Wealthy" by Scott Jaschik. Article reports that 29 percent of students at Brown and Dartmouth are from private high schools. Other Ivies are also high. Is this the way colleges should admit students? Mark and Dave have a real nuanced discussion ab...

In this episode you will hear: (08:17) In this week's news segment, an article from Education Next "Yes, It Really Is Harder to Get into Highly Selective Colleges Today" by Michael Petrilli. The conventional wisdom is that it's now much harder to be accepted into highly selective colleges and universities than it was a generation ago. According to the median SAT scores of most of the 100 top natio...

In this episode you will hear: (06:42) In this week's news segment, an article from Forbes "Wanted: Students for Admission to College" by Brennan Bernard. There is a subset of colleges and universities who have seen record increases in applications this year (thanks in part to pandemic-induced test-optional policies), but the reality is that this is predominantly among larger, more selective schoo...

In this episode you will hear: (09:06) In this week's news segment, an article from Forbes "2021 College Admission Predictions" by Brennan Bernard. College leaders offer their predictions for the next 12 months, and among other projections, the general consensus was that virtual admission is here to stay, standardized testing will fade away, and enrollment unpredictability will rule the day. Mark...

In this episode you will hear: (05:57) In this week's news segment, an article from the Georgia Tech Admission Blog "Predicting Yield in 2021: Everyone Shorts It" by Rick Clark. Admission and enrollment leaders are trying to predict whether students will be willing to enroll given the uncertainty of the continued impact of the pandemic. The difficulty of predicting yield means that it is almost in...

In this episode you will hear: (05:08) In this week's news segment, an article from The Chronicle of Higher Ed "The Surveilled Student" by Katherine Mangan. The pandemic has prompted many colleges to roll out surveillance tools that could help limit the spread of the virus, or mitigate its effects on learning, as students are sent out of the classroom and into private quarters. All met with backla...

In this episode you will hear: (04:48) In this week's news segment, an article from The Hechinger Report "While Many Colleges Are Making Big Cuts, A Few Opt for Permanent Transformation" by Jon Marcus. Mark and Dave continue their conversation around Unity College and a handful of other institutions are transforming themselves permanently, using lessons of the Covid-19 era to adopt or speed up dra...

In this episode you will hear: (04:59) In this week's news segment, an article from Vox "The Mess That is Elite College Admissions, Explained by a Former Dean" Jason England. The dean of an elite liberal arts university shares 8 things that he wishes people understood about his old job in admissions and its wide-ranging controversies. In our final segment Mark and Dave discuss points 5-8. https://...

In this episode you will hear: (05:15) In this week's news segment, an article from Vox "The Mess That is Elite College Admissions, Explained by a Former Dean" by Jason England. The dean of an elite liberal arts university shares 8 things that he wishes people understood about his old job in admissions and its wide-ranging controversies. In this segment Mark and Dave take 40 minutes to talk about...

In this episode you will hear: (16:07) In this week's news segment, an article from Vox "The Mess That is Elite College Admissions, Explained by a Former Dean" by Jason England. The former dean of an elite liberal arts university shares 8 things that he wishes people understood about his old job in admissions and its wide-ranging controversies. These eight points are so relevant to today that Mark...

In this episode you will hear: (08:07) In this week's news segment, an article from scotscott.com "California's rejection of affirmative action affects university admissions" by Lindsay Augustine and Andrew Tolu. Proposition 16 would have legalized affirmative action, but California voters rejected the new proposition in favor of 1996's Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action. Mark and Da...

In this episode you will hear: (14:40) In this week's news segment, an article from Inside Higher Ed "The College Degree is Diving America: What Does that Mean for Higher Education?", by Eric Kelderman. Higher education is known for its criticism among conservatives and if Trump were to have won re-lection institutions would have very likely taken a blow to critical funding and sound policy initia...

In this episode you will hear: (09:10) In this week's news segment, an article from Forbes "Common App Will No Longer Ask About Discipline Records, by Elana Lyn Gross. The Common App is eliminating a question that asks college applicants to disclose if they have been subject to disciplinary action in high school after finding the answer disproportionately impacts low-income students and students o...