YCBK 622: Tips Athletes Need If They Want to Play Their Sport in College-Part 3YCBK 623: Do Colleges Treat an A at a Rigorous HS the Same as an A at a Typical HS
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This week’s question (2:08): In Our Question from a Listener-Hilary joins me to ask a question about how colleges can use GPA to evaluate students when the high schools can vary so much in rigor, selectivity and grade inflation. (Length 23 minutes)
This week’s interview (25:01): Mark interviews Barbara Kalmus about how the words we often use when describing our college list are detrimental to student mental health
Part 1of 2
o Barbara Kalmus gives her backstory
o Barbara talks about student mental health
o Barbara talks about the impact of the language that we use when classifying colleges and how students hear something very different than what we think they hear (Length 16 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 (41:46): College Spotlight-Grace Robertson-Lloyd, an Associate Director of Admission at Grinnell College, and a regional admission officer stationed in Denver, helps us to understand Grinnell College
Part 1 of 3
o Grace gives her backstory, including her time as a student at Grinnell
o Grace talks about her first 10 years working for Grinnell in Iowa, DC and Grinnell, Iowa
o Grace explains how the role of a Regional is similar and different to the role of a home-based admission officer who lives close to the college
o Grace explains the trade-offs of not being able to do some things that home-based AO does, but how she has additional responsibilities that fill up her time
o Grace tells us what her territory is
o Grace talks about the pros and cons of being a regional that lives in the city she is recruiting from
o How can a student know if they have a regional AO from a college living locally and how can a student best take advantag4e of a regional
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