Introduction:

• Mark and Julia discuss Dartmouth’s decision to be the first IVY league school to require test scores. Part 2 of 2
• Mark interviews Andy Borst, the VP of enrollment at the University of Georgia on the topic of, Why do college students go out of state and why are so many heading to southern universities

Part 2:

• Andy shares data on the five states where students are leaving the most and he shares where they are going’
• Andy shares some of the reasons that determine which colleges students are experiencing a surge in applications
• Andy mentions the states where UGA is experiencing the greatest amount of increase in out of state applications.
• I ask Andy about a number of the reasons I think may have contributed to growth of applications to UGA and the south in general and he tells me whether the things I list are major factors, minor factors, or non-factors
• Andy explains why he moved from being the VP of enrollment at Illinois to the University of Georgia

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