In this week’s episode you will hear

In the News (2:05): In Our Question from a Listener-Carter joins Mark to answer a question from a mom who wants her son to be authentic in his application, but he only wants to play video games, and she wonders how admission officers will perceive this (Length 18 minutes)

This week’s interview (20:00):

• Mark interviews Elliot Felix, author of the book, ‘the Connected College”
• Elliot talks about an aha moment he had when he was doing research for his book
• Elliot talks about how we have to change what we are doing with emailing students
• Elliot talks about how we have to reinvent how libraries function, and how we have to have, “Next Generation Libraries”
• Elliot talks about what he does with the 120 colleges that have hired him
• Elliot talks about who the people on his team are and what are their roles (Length 18 minutes)

Mark’s recommended resource of the week : Guide to help first year students complete the Common Application- Application guide for first-year students

College Spotlight (38:38): College Spotlight-Daniela Uribe and Summer Cobb Tell us What Penn is like for students.

• Daniela and Summer share their experience with the other two colleges: Wharton, which is the business school and the college of nursing
• I share some things one of my students at Wharton who was supposed to join us and had a conflict; I share what he told me are some things he wanted to share about Wharton
• Summer and Daniela continue to talk about some of Penn stereotypes, and they discuss if they feel it is true
• Daniela talks about coffee chatting is foundational at Penn
• Summer and Daniela describe Penn’s personality
• Daniela and Summer get to be college counselors and I ask them, what does the student look like who you would recommend to Penn and what is the person that you would not recommend to Penn

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