In this week’s episode you will hear

Question #1 (Small Colleges) (4:15) : Hilary and Mark answer a question from a listener from Minneapolis who wants to know why there is so little conversation about colleges with under 500 students (Length 21 minutes)

Question #2 (HBCU’s) (25:32): Mark takes a question from a listener from Pennsylvania who has several questions about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Length 26 minutes)

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

Interview (Wake Forest Student) (51:08): Mark interviews a current Wake Forest student; they discuss her experience on a competitive dance team and they also discuss what Wake Forest is really like

Preview of Part 1

o Pryor gives her backstory

o Pryor tells us what it was like growing up in DuBai

o Pryor tells us what it is like being a student athlete at Wake and she talks about what she had to do to make the competitive dance team at Wake

o Pryor shares the pros and cons of being a student athlete in a Power 4 conference

o Pryor tells us what the best things about Wake Forest

o Pryor tells us what she would change if she was in charge of Wake Forest

o Pryor tells us the things that she didn’t know about Wake Forest until she arrived in Winston Salem

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