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YCBK 400: How can my son know if a teacher he wants to ask for a recommendation is a good writer
YCBK 400: How can my son know if a teacher he wants to ask for a recommendation is a good writerInterview 165: Andy Strickler on “How admission file reading from a large school group is different”
- Andy tells us about the five different schools he has worked at and the roles he has had at those schools
- Andy talks about the ways reading one school group together as its own entity, really allows the reader to learn so many things and to make more accurate admission decisions
- Andy answers the question, is it harder to get admitted if you are applying from a busy school group that is full of high achieving kids or a school group with an average amount of students or one that they rarely get apps from?
- Andy busts the myth that there is a firm quota on the number of kids from each school
- Andy talks about how demonstrated interest impact admissions decisions, and he explains how nuanced it is.
- Andy talks about how counselor calls come into play in these busy school groups
- Andy talks about demonstrated disinterest
- Andy talks about being well-resourced impacts admissions
- Andy talks about institutional pressures
- Andy talks about some of the things that he finds unsavory about the profession; things that are in the best interests of the institutions and
- Andy talks about using 3rd parties to help with predicting yield
- Andy explains what an affinity score is.
- Andy talks about how you must read affinity scores in context
