Introduction :

• Mark shares insights from two conversations he had with two admission officers at the SACAC conference
• Mark then shares how a student can get access to the custom prompts that many colleges require in June or early July, instead of in August when the colleges release their Common Apps

Lisa interviews Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop, authors of the Disengaged Teen – Preview of Part 2:

• Lisa Jenny and Rebecca continue to talk about the price we are paying as a society for the “perfectionism at all costs” mentality
• Rebecca talks about the idea of productive struggle
• Rebecca shares a story of a Yale student who didn’t handle struggle very well
• Jenny and Rebecca talk about what to do and what not to do if you have a kid who is stuck in passenger mode
• Rebecca talks about what you can do to develop Explorer muscles
• Jenny talks about the concept of tutoring to optimize

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