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YCBK 373: There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys This Year
FromYour College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission Interviews
YCBK 373: There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys This Year
FromYour College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission Interviews
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Length:
120 minutes
Released:
Oct 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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In this episode you will hear: (15:05) Mark and Julia discuss an article that appeared in the New York Times on 9/26/2023 by Susan Dominus entitled, “There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys This Year”. Julia and I discuss the gender gap in college and how some college admission offices are prioritizing men more than ever when making admission decisions. (38:36) Mark and Julia discuss a Speakpipe question that asked us to follow up on a previous conversation Julia and I discussed about “standard strong’ students (01:22:54) Mark interviews Rick Clark, AVP and Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Georgia Tech and Brennan Barnard, Director of the Khan Labs Academy; Brennan and Rick discuss the most challenging and controversial topics facing college admissions officers (Part 2 of 3) Part 2-Preview v Brennan and Rick have a disagreement about Early Decision, each one shares their reason for their view on Early Decision v Rick discusses the encroachment of the federal government in regulating admissions practices. v Rick talks about how the admissions funnel is being threatened by all of the challenges. v Brennan and Rick discuss legacy admissions v Rick talks about race based affirmative action v Brennan talks about how athletic recruiting is the big conversation we are not having v Rick talks about how he and Brennan do not always agree on athletic recruiting and college admissions v Rick talks about how some people are naïve about the business realities of college admissions (01:30:00) Recommended Resource: Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe. (01:40:54) Spotlight: University of Dayton 1 of 2 https://udayton.edu/ You can also use this for many other purposes: 1) Send us constructive criticism about how we can improve our podcast 2) Share an encouraging word about something you like about an episode or the podcast in general 3) Share a topic or an article you would like us to address 4) Share a speaker you want us to interview 5) Leave positive feedback for one of our interviewees. We will send your verbal feedback directly to them and I can almost assure you, your positive feedback will make their day. If you have a question for one of our upcoming interviews with admissions professionals, here is a list of admissions professionals who we will interview in 2023 or 2024 Confirmed interviews not yet completedBard-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 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-Ashley Pallie Colorado School of Mines Creighton University University of Puget Sound- Robin Aijian Belmont University University of Tennessee-Knoxville Law School Admissions interview-Lydia Emory University-Sarbeth Fleming To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our new monthly admissions newsletter, delivered directly to your email once a month, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign-up popup. Check out our new blog. We write timely and insightful
Released:
Oct 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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