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• Jin Chow is not only the founder of Polygence but she is a recipient of the Forbes award for 30 under 30 movers and shakers in education.
• Jin gives her backstory, and she shares why she started Polygence
• Jin explains what Polygence does
• Jin explains the growth of Polygence
• Jin explains what launch pad is
• Jin shares where most of their students come from
• Jin explains to us what pods are
• Jin explains what their cost structure is for all three levels that they offer
• Jin talks about the industry experts and academics that work with the students
• Jin walks us through what happens in a session with a mentee and a mentor
• Jin shares the range of areas where they have academics and industry experts to work with students
• Jin tells us how long the research papers that students write?
• Jin explains how Polygence benefits the students that participate and complete a project
• Jin explains the meaning of the word Polygence
• Jin talks about when students do their Polygence projects
• Jin answers the question, “Isn’t, Polygence just furthering the gap between well-resourced and under-resourced families
• Jin makes some excellent points about invisible privilege, and shechallenges the conventional notion of “pay to play”
• Jin talks about the partial and full scholarships that they give out
• Jin talks about the objection, what would you say to the person who says most of the mentors are not industry experts but grad students?
• Jin talks about the challenge that most places where students get published that is meaningful takes longer than a few months, so isn’t the promise of possibly getting published an overpromise
• Jin talks about when they reject families who apply for Polygence
• Jin talks about the sign-up process and the Polygence application process
• Jin explains why they do not allow parents to join their sessions
• Jin answers the objection, aren’t your statistics about college admissions inflated because you attract a pool of very strong applicants, so you have selection bias built into your applicant pool
• Jin answers the objection, what would you say to the person who says, kids are already stressed out, aren’t you already adding more stress to students’ lives
• Jin talks about how Polygence is more than a place for students to crank out papers where they get published
• I share in depth, my own evolution from being Polygence skeptical to embracing and supporting Polygence for the student who really wants to do a research project
• Jin explains when Polygence works best
• Jin goes on the hotseat

You can also listen on Episode 488, Episode 490, and Episode 492