In this week’s episode you will hear

In the News (2:02): Mark and Vince discuss the nine colleges that make up the University of California-Part 1 of 2 (Length 34 minutes)

This week’s question (36:50): An anonymous mom from New York wants to know how highly rejective colleges evaluate extracurricular activities (Length 18 minutes)

This week’s interview 1 (54:16): Jeremy Lowe, the Assistant Vice Provost of Undergraduate Admissions at American University discusses American University with Lisa Rouff-1 of 2 Inverview 2- Chris Cage, the VP of enrollment at Belmont University discusses Belmont University with Mark Stucker-Part 1 of 3

Mark’s recommended resource of the week (1:02:58): Schoolhouse.world, a great resource for free online tutoring that uses student teachers who have shown mastery of the content they teach by excelling in school. Schoolhouseworld has partnerships with several dozen selective universities

College Spotlight : N/A

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