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Interview 186: Michele Evard, Holly Ramsey, and Liam Dailey on "How admission offices evaluate homeschooled applicants"
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Interview 188: Michelle McAnaney on "What to do to maximize your college visits"
Interview 188: Michelle McAnaney on "What to do to maximize your college visits"Interview 187: John Hoffman on “Lessons learned from 45 years placing kids in colleges and boarding schools”
- John shares his background
- John shares the reasons why a Jewish man from NY wants to work with Black, Brown, and Asian kids
- John talks about how the college process is radically different now than it was 50 years ago
- John tells a story about a course he took at Columbia that had a profound impact on him, and it still impacts his understanding of human behavior today
- John explains what he means by having a T-20 mentality
- John talks about the college process for his daughter that was just completed last month
- John shared how his daughter communicated the lower grades that she had in her freshman year to the colleges she applied to
- John shares the lessons he learned from his daughter going through the college process
- John shares his view of what role, if any, the name recognition of the school should play when building a college list
- John talks about how Columbia’s core curriculum helped him
- I talk about why the Open Curriculum is appealing to me
- John goes on the hot seat
