Your College-Bound Kid

Oct 26, 2018

In this episode you will hear:

• 2:30 In this week’s news: Feeling Suicidal, Students Turned to Their College. They Were Told to Go Home, a recent article written in the New York Times by Anemona Hartocollis
• 11:45 We are in Chapter 39 of 171 Answers and Mark is breaking down the ACT standardized test.
• 18:45 This...

Oct 18, 2018

In this episode you will hear:

• 2:00 In this week’s news: Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed writes about, Digging Deeper On Student Loan Default Rates and the alarming racial disparities that exist among borrowers
• 14:45 We are in Chapter 38 of 171 Answers and Mark is explaining what the National Merit Scholarship...

Oct 11, 2018

In this episode you will hear:

• 2:20 - In this week’s news we’re discussing an article by Jeffrey Selingo that talks about the two most important college admissions criteria and how they now mean less.
• 10:50 - We are in Chapter 37 of 171 Answers and we’re talking about the importance of the PSAT test.
• 21:00 -...

Oct 4, 2018

In this episode you will hear:

• 2:28 In this week’s news Mark and Anika discuss an article by Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed that describes the financial dangers that many small private colleges are facing.
• 15:17 We are in Chapter 36 of 171 Answers and Mark and Anika are discussing how colleges evaluate high...