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Interview 73: Christina Lopez on "Understanding Barnard College"
Interview 73: Christina Lopez on "Understanding Barnard College"Interview 72: Christina Lopez on “Mental Health”
- Christina shares her backstory including her theater background
- Christina candidly shares her own challenge with her own mental health; how it impacts her on her job, and how she has learned to still excel on her job.
- Christina relates her own struggles to the struggle’s students are facing with the stress of the college process with covid-19
- Christina explains how she got so comfortable sharing her own struggles publicly
- Christina answers the question, how is a student to know whether they should share a mental health struggle, or whether it will sabotage their admission chances. How does the essay differ from what a student would say with the therapist
- Christina gives her assessment on whether admissions officers are good at understanding and accepting student’s mental health
- Christina talks about one way Barnard discerns if a student is admissible when they have had mental health challenges
- Christina closes with a profound statement about what she looks for and likes to see in an essay.
