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YCBK 237: Do Universities Rescind Their Admissions Offers

YCBK 237: Do Universities Rescind Their Admissions Offers

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


YCBK 237: Do Universities Rescind Their Admissions Offers

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

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Length:
143 minutes
Released:
Jul 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode you will hear:   (19:16) Mark and Susan discuss an article in Grown and Flown, entitled, ”Do Universities Actually Rescind Their Admissions Offers”. The article was actually written on February 3rd, 2021.  Susan and Mark discuss three reasons why college’s rescind admission decisions and they draw from their experience to discuss each of the three reasons .   (01:10:36) It’s bonus content school and Lisa leads us in a discussion on the following topic: What is going on with college mental health centers-(Part 2 of 2)     (01:27:53) Our first interview is with Sue Corner, the Dean of Admissions at Willamette University and someone who started as a student at Willamette in the 80’s. She will talk about three misconceptions about private schools in a two-part interview. In part one Sue addressed two of the three misperceptions and in this episode, Sue finishes up her discussion of reason two and then she explains reason three. Susan spends most of her time on reason three.  (2 of 2)   Preview-   Sue addresses Myth #3-Institutional quality is best evaluated by admit rate and ranking Sue discusses various ways in which it is so easy for a school to manipulate its admit rate Sue talks about how easy it is to manipulate rankings Sue gives her advice on how to block out the noise and she shares some of the legitimate ways to judge a school’s educational quality   (01:36:46) The recommended resource is the website, This website includes voluminous amounts of data on each college and the information is presented in a way that is very visually appealing and user friendly.   (01:52:50) Lansing Community College is our College Spotlight. Our College Spotlight is a second interview with Dr. Steve Robinson who is the President of Lansing Community College. Steve debunks a lot of myths about Community College, but he also really articulates well the great opportunities Community College offers (Part 2 of 2)   Please send in your questions either on Twitter at @YCBKpodcast using the Messages tab (this is our preference) or via email at for the 26 admissions interviews we are doing in the summer and fall. Our interviews are with the following people at the following schools: Confirmed interviews you can still send in questions for our guests: Bard-Mackie Siebens Mercer-Kelly Holloway Oregon State-Jon Boeckenstadt (Interview about a range of admission topics)-July 19th Reed-Milyon Truelove- Rice University-Tamara Siler American University-Andrea Felder Pitzer College-Yvonne Berumen Chapman University-Marcela Meija-Martinez Connecticut College-Andy Strickler* Trinity College-Anthony Berry* Trinity University-Justin Doty-(interview about athletic recruitment process for DIII schools)-July 15th College of the Atlantic-Heather Albert* Spelman College-Chelsea Holley* Scripps College-Victoria Romero* Saint Louis University-Daniel Wood-(Interview is about transfer admissions, Daniel is a transfer counselor) University of Connecticut-Vern Granger* Colby College-Randi Arsenault* Hamilton College-Peaches Valdes* University of Georgia-David Graves* Washington University St Louis-Ronne Turner University of Delaware-Darrell Edmonds     To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our free quarterly admissions deep-dive, delivered directly to your email four times a year, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign up on the right side of the page under “the Listen to our podcast icons”   Follow Mark Stucker on Twitter to get breaking college admission news,  and updates about the podcast before they go live. You can ask questions on Twitter that he will answer them on the podcast. Mark will also share additional hot topics in the news and breaking news on this Twitter feed. Twitter message is also the preferred way to ask questions for our podcast:   https://twitter.com/YCBKpodcast   To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ Find the specific epis
Released:
Jul 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Each Thursday, the "Your College-Bound Kid" podcast will discuss a hot college admissions article; answer a question from a listener; interview a "thought leader" in the world of college admissions, and do a Spotlight on a college. Every Monday, we will have a second episode with announcements and an interview with a "thought leader" in the world of college admissions or college life. YCBK combines in-depth knowledge and insights about college admissions with a lighthearted, easy-to-listen-to style.