Your College-Bound Kid: YCBK 231: Advice from College Admissions Deans-Part 2 (2024)

Jun 16, 2022

In this episode you will hear:

(05:30) Julia Esquivel makes her debut as one of our co-hosts inour monthly rotation for our “In the News” segment. Mark and Juliadiscuss a Washington Post article by Valerie Strauss entitled,“Advice from College Admissions Deans”. We discussed this articleon #194 but we said we would return to it. Julia picked out threequotes from the article from admissions deans that resonated withher and Mark and Julia discuss them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/09/26/truth-about-college-admissions-college-admissions-deans/

(37:56) Diana from Wisconsin sent us an outstanding list ofquestions that are all designed to get some guidance about thetransition to college. Mark and Lisa acknowledge that thetransition to college is an area that we haven’t adequatelycovered. Mark and Lisa answered half of Diana’s questions inepisode and they answer the other half here in episode 231.

1) Thanksgiving break- we found that plane tickets forThanksgiving break were sky-high in price and the remaining schoolyear after break was so short, it was almost not worth it to haveher come home for break. In retrospect, we kind of wish we had notset the expectation to have her come home for Thanksgiving, as itwas short and stressful.

2) Safety and crime on campus - does the campus have anemergency alert system that students can sign up for text alertsfor? Can parents sign up also?

3) how often should we talk on the phone together? Should wehave a weekly call? How often will we be in touch with eachother?

(01:01:10) Our interview is with Karen Kristof, a 30+ yearadmission veteran who has worked at five colleges. Karen is theDean of admissions at Colorado College. Karen addresses threedifferent topics over for three consecutive Thursdays. In lastweek’s episode Karen answered the question, how do collegesevaluate a transcript. This week she answers the question:

Preview-How admissions officers evaluate a highschool

• Karen shares how a college uses the School Profile tounderstand each high school
• Karen talks about how they evaluate a student who is at a poorhigh school
• How do you evaluate a student who is at a school with a lot ofreally high achievers
• Can they tell if a school has grade inflation or gradedeflation
• We discuss reading by school group

(01:13:42) The recommended resource is the website: https://www.universitystudy.ca/
Explore Canadian universities and programs of study. Recommendedfirst place to start for researching Canadian universities.

(01:30:30) Our College Spotlight is The University of Michigan,Part 2 of 2 with Lisa

Please send in your questions either on Twitter at @YCBKpodcastusing the Messages tab (this is our preference) or via email atQuestions@yourcollegeboundkid.comfor the 26 admissions interviews we are doing in the summer andfall. Our interviews are with the following people at the followingschools:

University of Delaware-Darrell Edmonds

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