Jan 30, 2020
In this episode you will hear:
(10:45) In this week’s news segment, an article from Wall Street Journal, “How to Fix College Admissions”, by Melissa Korn. Korn interviews several groups in the world of college admissions – admissions officers, counselors, parents, students - to identify ways in which the...
Jan 23, 2020
In this episode you will hear:
(07:14) In this week’s news segment, an article from Wall Street Journal, “How to Fix College Admissions”, by Melissa Korn. Korn interviews several groups in the world of college admissions – admissions officers, counselors, parents, students - to identify ways in which the...
Jan 16, 2020
In this episode you will hear:
(05:21) In this week’s news segment, an article from New York Times, “What Admissions Officers Really Want”, by Paul Tough. In Part 2 of our discussion of this excellent article we talk about a study of 150,000 SAT scores that looks at how accurate is the SAT, and when it is...
Jan 9, 2020
In this episode you will hear:
(10:41) In this week’s news segment, an article from New York Times, “What Admissions Officers Really Want”, by Paul Tough. At the center of this article is the story of Trinity College’s enrollment manager, Angel Perez, who is hired with two really big and competing priorities of:...
Jan 2, 2020
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(08:35) In this week’s news segment, an article from nitrocollege.com, “Why College Students Should Work, But Only 12 Hours”, by Libby Miller. Research done by the Department of Education about working while you are in college. Miller weighs the pros and cons of students working...