In this episode you will hear:   (16:06) Vince and Mark discuss an article that appeared in the New Yorker entitled, How Rich or Not Rich do you need to be to get in the IVY league By Gail Cornwell. Kids whose parents make $158,200 to $222,400 a year have the worst odds of acceptance. Vince describes the article and Vince and Mark share whether they agree with the article.     (32:06) Lisa and Susan answer a question about who qualifies for extra time on the ACT and the SAT. They also answer how do you qualify for extra time.   (01:02:18) Lisa interviews Scott Barnhardt, a former Broadway actor on the topic of college admissions for musical theater majors and other performing arts majors-Part 1 of 2   Preview 1 §  Lisa shares Scott’s impressive biography including his time on Broadway in productions like the Book of Mormon §  Scott shares how a disappointment turned out to be a blessing in disguise §  Scott says the most common question he is asked is, what is the difference between a BA and a BFA, so he answers that question for us with some depth. §  Scott talks about how creative applicants have to do an art supplement and a prescreen, and sometimes a second round of auditions, so their application process is different. §  Scott talks why rejections for performing arts majors are so painful §  Scott talks about how hyper competitive the applications process is performing arts majors. §  Lisa asks Scott how he builds a college list for musical theater majors and for performing arts majors. §  Scott shares the biggest mistake he sees families who are looking at performing arts make in their college process   (01:13:54) Recommended Resource-   (01:29:45) College Spotlight, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Part 2 of 2   Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe.    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.   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 articles on college admissions:   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 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   1. To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ 2. Find the specific episode transcripts for the one you want to search and click the link 3. Find the magnifying glass icon in blue (search feature) and click it 4. Enter whatever word you want to search. I.e. Loans 5. Every word in that episode when the words loans are used, will be highlighted in yellow with a timestamps 6. Click the word highlighted in yellow and the player will play the episode from that starting point 7. You can also download the entire podcast as a transcript   We would be honored if you will pass this podcast episode on to others who you feel will benefit from the content in YC