In this week’s episode you will hear

In the News (3:12): We have a five-way conversation for the first time at YCBK. Our four regular (Julia, Susan, Vince and Mark) are joined by Hillary Dickman, (Assistant Director of Admissions, Colorado College) for a conservation about how to complete the Activities Section of the Common Application. We discuss the Do’s and the Don’ts over the next three weeks. Part 2 of 3 (Length 28 minutes)

This week’s question (31:51): A mom from Western Massachusetts wants to know how activities are evaluated by middle income students, who don’t have the money to do expensive activities, but they also aren’t classified as under-resourced students (Length 16 minutes)

This week’s interview (47:18): Two college counselors who specialize in working with homeschooled applicants (Dr. Michele Evard and Holly Ramsey) and a Senior Associate Director of Admissions (Liam Dailey) who works at Beloit College but serves as Beloit College’s admission liaison have an in-depth 90 minute conversation about, How Admission Offices evaluate homeschooled applicants (Part 1 of 4). Preview:

• Holly, Michele, and Liam all introduce themselves.
• Liam, Michele, and Holly share the reasons why students choose homeschooling
• Holly shares some of the fascinating statistics on homeschooling
• We return to the subject of why students consider homeschooling
• Holly explains why she feels homeschooling is a humane way to educate
• Holly explains how the racial unrest with George Floyd has impacted homeschooling
• Liam shares some creative examples of students who homeschooled
• Michele answers the question, when is a student that learns at home homeschooled, and when are they not homeschooled
• Holly speaks to the efficiency of homeschooling (Length 25 minutes)

Mark’s recommended resource of the week : No recommended resource during the Homeschooled interview because Holly, Michele and Liam share about five recommended resources during their four part interview.

College Spotlight (1:12:35): X(1)College Spotlight-Understanding Ursinus, an interview with Michael Keaton-Part 1 of 2. Preview of Part 1:

• Michael gives an overview of Part 1
• Michael talks about the Presidents vision for Ursinus and he says that is one reason he chose to come to Ursinus
• Michael talks about the departments and programs that students are the most enthusiastic about
• Michael talks about the Summer Fellows Program

Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe.

You can also use this for many other purposes: 1) Send us constructive criticism about how we can improve our podcast 2) Share an encouraging word about something you like about an episode or the podcast in general 3) Share a topic or an article you would like us to address 4) Share a speaker you want us to interview 5) Leave positive feedback for one of our interviewees. We will send your verbal feedback directly to them and I can almost assure you, your positive feedback will make their day.

If you have a question for one of our upcoming interviews with admissions professionals, here is a list of admissions professionals who we will interview in 2023 or 2024.

To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our new monthly admissions newsletter, delivered directly to your email once a month, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign-up popup.

Check out our new blog. We write timely and insightful articles on college admissions: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/blog/