In this week’s episode you will hear

In the News (2:06): Mark and Andy Stricker (Dean of Admissions at Connecticut College) discuss how does athletic recruiting work for students who are applying to selective colleges. 7 of 7 (Length 16 minutes)

This week’s question (18:34): Our Roundtable is back; this time it is Hillary Dickman, Vince Garcia, Susan Tree and Mark Stucker and they answer a question, do I only submit a score of 5 to a highly selective college (Length 28 minutes)

This week’s interview (46:46): David Graves, a 27-year veteran of the admission office at the University of Georgia does a 2-hour deep dive into helping us understand the University of Georgia-Part 3 of 5. Preview of Part 3

• David explains why UGA lists the range of the number of AP and IB scores in their profile and he explains why this is not what you think it means
• David answers a question from Mark about whether it is harder to get into UGA if you apply EA, and whether a borderline student is advised to apply in the regular decision round
• David explains the factors that UGA takes into consideration when they do their holistic review of the applicant
• David gives some advice for students about the UGA essay
• David answers the question, does UGA take into consideration the high school that a student is coming from
• David talks about how a file is read if a college doesn’t have AP or IB classes
• David talks about in-state vs out of state admissions and he shares the states where they are experiencing a real surge of admissions
• David talks about whether a student coming from a very underrepresented state is factored as a plus factor or are all out of state schools grouped together
• David talks about how transfer admissions work, is there a guarantee with a certain GPA or is it more nuanced

Mark’s recommended resource of the week : returns in October

College Spotlight : The University of Georgia

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