In this week’s episode you will hear

In the News (2:30): Julia and Mark discuss an article by Eric Hoover from the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled, FAFSA Fiasco Changed Composition of First-Year Classes at Most Private Colleges (Length 11 minutes)

This week’s question (13:22): Hillary and Mark answer a question from a student who wants to know which colleges are good for indoor rock climbing (Length 14 minutes)

This week’s interview: Gloria and Terry Crawford, Answering FAQ about Glimpse Video (27:00): Preview of Part 2 of 5

• Gloria shares the mechanics of how Glimpse works and what costs are involved
• Terry and Gloria answer the question, are there any students that should not submit a Glimpse video
• Terry and Gloria discuss whether some schools use Glimpse as a test of demonstrated interest?
• Gloria gives students advice about what colleges want in their Glimpse and she shares some tips about how to know if what you are thinking about is too elaborate or time-intensive

Preview : Preview of Part 2

• Fabrizio talks about the markets where UTK regionals are located
• Fabrizio talks about the markets where the Regionals are having great success
• Fabrizio talks about when they decide to phase out trying to penetrate a market
• Fabrizio talks about the factors they use to determine which markets to try to penetrate with a Recruiter Regional
• Fabrizio talks about the mantra that UTK lives by when it comes to reaching out to Tennessee
• Fabrizio gives the breakdown of the applications that are out of state vs in-state
• Fabrizio talks about what the admit rate was in seven years and what it is now
• Fabrizio and I talk about the fallacy of judging a college by its admit rate
• Fabrizio talks about some of the criticisms that come with all of their growth and he explains how he handles it
• Fabrizio talks about how they revamped their whole communication system and how that is one of the biggest things that
• Fabrizio talks about how they revamped their tour guide program and how they see the fruit from those changes
• Fabrizio talks about how they started a counselor fly-in program and how they created a counselor advisory board
• Fabrizio explains why more schools are not doing the counselor fly-in programs that they are doing.
• Fabrizio talks about how they select which counselors they are flying in

College Spotlight (53:02): University of Tennessee at Knoxville (Part 2 of 5)

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