In this episode you will hear:   o   Mark and Lisa answer a question from Melissa from Massachusetts about whether it is worth it to submit the college’s own application as a way of signaling interest to them. o   Lisa interviews, Dr. Jenni Griffin, the Dean of APEX at the College of Wooster, Part 2 of 3 Preview of Part 2-this week   o   Dr. Griffin explains what the APEX fellows program is o   Lisa asks Dr. Griffin how families can evaluate whether a school offers the type of services that APEX offers o   Jenni talks about how important it is to learn how to study o   Jenni talks about the two questions we need to stop asking students but adults and students continue to keep asking students o   Jenni talks about how decision fatigue and how it can be paralyzing Preview of Part 1-Aired on Episode 346 on 7/24-   o   Jenni gives her education and her career background o   Dean of Apex-Advising, Planning and Experiential Learning which overseas six offices: Academic resource center, Global Engagement, Career Planning, Experiential learning and Community Engagement Entrepreneurship Center and the Registrars office o   Jenni talks about how it was intentional to bring together these six major departments and locate them in one place so they could coordinate their support amongst all of the departments o   Jenni talks about the most difficult group for Apex to reach and she explains why this group is hard for Apex to reach o   Jenni talks about a creative way they have used to get 200 students to complete resumes o   Jenni talks about why there is no stigma for students to visit APEX       Our favorite way for you to leave a question or any message for us is to put speakpipe.com/YCBK in your browser and take up to 90 seconds to leave a message. We recommend you share your first name and your state, but you can also be anonymous.   If you do not want to verbally leave a message for us by using speakpipe.com/YCBK you can send in your questions either on Twitter at @YCBKpodcast using the Messages tab  or via email at .   You can also send in questions for our interviews by using speakpipe.com/YCBK. Our interviews are confirmed for 2023 and 2024 with the following leaders at the following schools: Confirmed interviews not yet completed Bard-Mackie Siebens 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* 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) Colby College-Randi Arsenault* University of Georgia-David Graves* University of Minnesota-Keri Risic Cornell University-Jonathon Burdick Fabrizio D’Aloisio-University of Tennessee-Knoxville Oberlin College-Manuel Carballo Carleton College-Art Rodriguez Swarthmore-Jim Bok Joy St. Johns-Harvard Duke-Christoph Guttentag Florida State-John Barnhill Southern Methodist University-Elena Hicks Johns Hopkins-Calvin Wise Cornell University-Shawn Felton Haverford College-Jess Lord UAspire-Brendan Williams Yale University-Moira Poe Bard College- Baylor University Butler University California Institute of Technology Colorado School of Mines Creighton University Dartmouth College-Lee Coffin Chris Cage-Belmont University     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 on the podcast. Mark will also share additional h