YCBK 156: Common App Will No Longer Ask About Discipline Records [Transcript]
YCBK 157: The College Degree is Dividing America [Transcript]YCBK 157: The College Degree is Dividing America
In this week’s episode you will hear
In the News (14:40) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Inside Higher Ed “The College Degree is Diving America: What Does that Mean for Higher Education?”, by Eric Kelderman. Higher education is known for its criticism among conservatives and if Trump were to have won re-lection institutions would have very likely taken a blow to critical funding and sound policy initiatives. “The president has spent his first term trashing advanced knowledge, from denying climate science to dismissing Dr. Fauci and other learned epidemiologists as idiots”, wrote the president of Trinity Washington University. (Length 16 minutes)
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-great-divide
Chapter 157 of 171 Answers (30:40) : and we’re talking through what tax deductions and tax credits parents of college students could potentially receive.
This week’s question (46:52) is from Jillion in CA. She wants to know how to tell if what a kid is doing from an extracurricular perspective is “enough” for a selective school.
This week’s interview (1:07:48) Mark concludes his interview with Amin Gonzalez-VP and Dean of Admission at Wesleyan University in the final part of – How to effectively utilize the Additional Information section of the Common Application.
Mark’s recommended resource of the week (1:16:33)
College Spotlight (1:22:47) : University of New Hampshire (Length 26 minutes)
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