Podcast Episodes

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (6:59): In this week’s news segment, an article from Bloomberg, “The Coming College Enrollment Bust”, by Justin Fox. Economists predict that there will be shifts in enrollment numbers by the second half of the 2020s. There are indications that the top 50 elite schools will [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (11:45): An article from Wall Street Journal, “Colleges Rethink Athletic Special Admissions in Wake of Indictments”, by Melissa Korn and Brian Costa. The infamous William Rick Singer was exposed for targeting low profile sports to find coaches who would accept his bribes. The writers of [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (3:40): an article from New York Times, “ACT Change Will Allow Students to Retake Individual Sections”, by Anemona Hartocollis. Starting in September 2020, students who want to improve their ACT scores will be able to retake single sections of the five-part ACT test - instead [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (6:32): An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Welcome to the Wild West: The Competition for College Applicants Just Intensified”, by Eric Hoover. Admissions officers and college counselors that attended the National Association for College Admission Counseling’ 75th annual conference just voted to delete [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (5:25): In this week’s news, an article from Insider Higher Ed, “Judge Upholds Harvard’s Admissions Policies”, by Scott Jaschik. Federal Judge Allison Burroughs of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts has ruled that Harvard’s approach to affirmative action does not discriminate against Asian Americans. Judge [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (5:44): An article from Business Insider, “9 Ways College is Different for Millennials Than it Was for Previous Generations”, by Hillary Hoffower. Most significantly, college today is more expensive for millennials — but it has also experienced an increase in technological advancements and opportunities, diversity, [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (4:51): In this week’s news, an article from Wall Street Journal, “Fed Says Student Debt Has Hurt the U.S. Housing Market”, by Josh Mitchell and Laura Kasisto. Student loans prevented 400,000 young Americans from buying homes, between 2005 to 2014. The amount of student loan [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (6:12): In this week’s news, an article from savingforcollege.com, “Surge in Number of Colleges Cutting Tuition”, by Mark Kantrowitz. Between 2012 through 2018 small non-selective, private 4-year colleges began enacting tuition re-sets. These re-sets are a one-time reduction in a college’s tuition rate, usually accompanied [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (04:16): an article from the University Gazette, “Study Finds that More AP Classes May Not Be Better”. University of NC Chapel Hill’s undergraduate office found that taking more than 5 AP courses, probably doesn’t prepare students any better for college. Taking AP courses up to [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (4:45): In this week’s news, an article from The Atlantic, “Parents Gone Wild: High Drama Inside D.C.’s Most Elite Private School” by Adam Harris. Sidwell Friends, a highly selective Quaker school in Washington DC, has been dealing with abhorrent parent behavior that has resulted in [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (4:53): In this week’s news, an article from Wall Street Journal, “Survive College Application Season with the Family in One Piece” by Sue Shellenbarger. Chapter 84 of 171 Answers (17:54): We are in Chapter 84 of 171 Answers and we’re talking about Honors colleges and [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (6:50): an article from Forbes, “Admission Deans Share Tips for College Applications” by Brennan Barnard. Recognizing the many students will procrastinate until days or even hours before their application deadlines, Barnard sought sound advice from admission leaders on how to avoid submitting low quality applications [...]