In this week’s episode you will hear

In the News (4:40): Mark and Andy Stricker (Dean of Admissions at Connecticut College) discuss how does athletic recruiting work for students who are applying to selective colleges. 6 of 7 (Length 18 minutes)

This week’s question (22:48): Kevin Newton answers a second question from Dale from Virginia about how International Universities look at IB courses (Length 11 minutes)

This week’s interview (33:00): David Graves, a 27-year veteran of the admission office at the University of Georgia does a 2-hour deep dive into helping us understand the University of Georgia. Preview of Part 2

• David starts with David explaining how UGA is different from other southern Flagships
• David tells us more about what the town of Athens is like
• David explains why UGA’s admissions rate is almost 40 points higher than the national average
• David talks about how the academic review is different from the holistic review and how UGA uses both methods in their admission process
• David talks about how UGA recalculates a GPA and he shares how AP, IB, Honors and Advanced classes are used
• David explains why the test scores of the students who are admitted. are higher in the Early Action round

Mark’s recommended resource of the week : returns in October

College Spotlight : The University of Georgia

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