In this week’s episode you will hear

This week’s question (1:36): Mark and Hillary continue giving tips for college fairs but then they discuss how it lands when a student doesn’t have any service hours. (Length 16 minutes)

This week’s interview (17:33): Mark Stucker and Nate Haveman, VP of enrollment of Hope College – Preview of Part 2 of 4

• Nate and I talk about why college costs so much these days
• Nate goes back to Hope Forward and goes into more in depth explaining things like, how are students selected for Hope Forward and is it based more on merit or need, and what is the interview process like
• Nate talks about how unique it is for a liberal arts school to offer both business and engineering, like Hope provides
• Nate talks about the role of research at Hope
• Nate talks about study abroad opportunities at Hope

College Spotlight (32:22): Kevin Newton, Changes in International Admissions-2 of 2

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