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• Jim Bock tells his story from leaving Austin, Texas, and heading to Swarthmore, first as a student
• Jim shares how he answers the question, I’ve never heard of Swarthmore, what can you tell me about Swarthmore
• Jim explains how Swarthmore’s founding is different from Haverford, another Quaker school that they are often compared to
• Jim shares the intellectual qualities that, when he is reading a file, make him think, this could be a good match for Swarthmore
• Jim shares the Personal Qualities that Swat values
• Jim explains how Committee-Based Evaluation, also known as CBE, works at Swarthmore College and how they use CBE to evaluate an admission applicant
• Jim explains the difference between reading a file with CBE vs the traditional way they read files before they implemented CBE
• Jim shares why he finds reading by a school group helps the admission file reading process
• Jim Bock talks about the importance of playing ball with others
• Jim talks about how they target students who meet their needs and not students who they think will come when making admission decisions
• Jim talks about whether they build out predictive models to see how kids at certain high schools do at Swarthmore academically
• Jim talks about how Swarthmore differs from schools like Pomona, Carlton, Amherst and Williams?
• Jim talks about Swarthmore’s Honors program tutorials that have been around for over 100 years
• Jim talks about why Swarthmore is pass/fail for the first semester
• Mark asks Jim to comment on some perceptions he has about Swarthmore. Mark asks Jim if they are correct. The first one is academically intense
• Mark asks Jim if Swarthmore students are quirky
• Mark asks Jim if Swarthmore students are progressive politically
• Mark asks Jim if Swarthmore students are diverse
• Mark asks Jim if Swarthmore students have an insatiable love of learning
• Mark asks Jim if Swarthmore students want to change the world
• Jim talks about the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, which Swarthmore grad Eugene Lang provided the funding for
• Jim and Mark talk about how wait lists may change in light of the unforeseen future
• Mark asks Jim to talk about Swarthmore’s wooded arboretum campus
• Mark asks Jim to share how Swarthmore and Haverford are different
• Jim shares a little about the bi-co and tri-co consortia
• Jim explains what it means for a college to be a Liberal Arts school
• Jim explains what skill set a Swarthmore liberal arts education inculcates in its graduates
• Mark asks Jim about several financial challenges colleges are facing, and I ask him how these financial challenges are impacting admissions
• Mark asks Jim if he sees selecting colleges that are not land locked trying to expand their class size as a way of bringing in more revenue.
• Jim goes on the hot seat in our lightning round

You can also listen on Episode 525, Episode 527, and Episode 529