In this week’s episode you will hear

This week’s question (1:45): In Our Question from a Listener-Hilary joins Mark to answer a few questions: How does a student let a college know they will not be accepting their admission offer; who do they tell; when do they communicate this? (Length 24 minutes)

This week’s interview (25:30):

• Mark interviews Elliot Felix, author of the book, ‘the Connected College”
• Elliot tells us what “sunsetting is” and he explains why more college need to sunset more programs
• Elliot talks about what a student can do if they want to break into doing design and strategic work on college campuses
• Elliot shares what he hasn’t shared so far that he wants our families to know
• Elliot gives a more detailed overview of the content he covers in the Connected College
• Elliot is headquartered in Minneapolis, and he loves the entire state, and during the interview, he was wearing a support the Twin cities shirt for our interview, so I asked him, what is it people do not understand about Minneapolis and he gave us a straight answer (Length 21 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 (46:05):

• College Spotlight-Daniela Uribe and Summer Cobb Tell us What Penn is like for students.
• Summer and Daniela talk about imposters syndrome at Penn
• Summer and Daniela talk about the hot topics on campus
• Daniela and Summer discuss, “Penn face”
• Summer and Penn talk about M & T and Huntsman, two dual-degree programs that Penn is known for
• Summer and Daniela go on the hot seat and they drop some more pearls of wisdom for all of us

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