Your College-Bound Kid

YCBK 57: How to Make Your Activities Stand out in Your Application

Feb 28, 2019

In this episode you will hear:

(2:41) In this week’s news, “New Front in College Admissions, Nudging Students to Decide Early”, by Douglas Belkin in the Wall Street Journal.
(21:12) We are in chapter 57 of 171 Answers and we’re talking through how your student can showcase their passions for their activities...

YCBK 56: Pros and Cons of Early Decision Applications

Feb 21, 2019

(2:57) In this week’s news, “Ten College Majors with the Biggest Gender Gap”, by Katie Bardaro. While most attention turns toward the lack of women in STEM fields, many majors overwhelmingly experience gender imbalance and Bardaro writes that this is mostly contributed to how societal standards dictating how men...

YCBK 55: 15 Different Ways to Apply to College

Feb 14, 2019

In this episode you will hear:

(3:02) In this week’s news, “Parenting the College Admission Applicant -as an Admission Dean”, by Brennan Barnard. Bernard is not just a director of college counseling, college admission manager for Harvard Graduate School, and well written columnist – he is also a parent of a...

YCBK 54: Different types of test optional colleges

Feb 7, 2019

In this episode you will hear:

(4:14) In this week’s news, we discuss an article that appeared in the Washington Post on April 7 th , 2018 by Jeffrey Selingo entitled, “The higher education divide: The ‘haves’ keep getting richer. Other schools? Not so much”. Mark and Anika discuss the disparity of wealth and...