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YCBK 585: All 39 AP Courses Rated As Most Rigorous or Just Rigorous
YCBK 585: All 39 AP Courses Rated As Most Rigorous or Just RigorousInterview 253: Andy Strickler on “Insights into how decisions are made that are rarely shared in public”
- Andy and Mark discuss how AP scores are factored into file reading at Connecticut College
- Andy and Mark discuss why some students get low AP scores and how this is interpreted
- Andy talks about what adjustments they make to support a student who had low AP scores when they arrive at Connecticut College
- Andy discusses the IB diploma
- Andy talks about high schools that send in narrative applications
- Andy talks about how long they spend reading each application
- Andy and Mark talk about “Committee-Based Evaluation” (CBE), and he defines it for those who are not familiar with it
- Andy and Mark discuss the pros and cons of CBE
- Andy discusses the bias training that the admission officers go through
- Andy talks about what demonstrated disinterest is
- Andy talks about the student who couldn’t care less about Connecticut College and its peer institutions, but becomes very interested when they don’t get into the Ivy League or Ivy League peer schools
- Andy talks about how his school responds to these students
- Mark shares his evolution as a counselor when it comes to understanding top-heavy college lists
- Andy and I discuss how common it is for admission officers to get a daily printout of all of the web activity from students in their admissions territory
