Podcast Episodes

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (12:05) : In this week’s “In the news” segment, Dave returns and Mark and Dave discuss a Feb 14th, 2022 article, by Brennan Barnard of Forbes, “Things that make you go Hmmm. Brennan Barnard interviews many admission leaders and college counselors in attempt to explain [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (12:32) : In this week’s “In the news” segment, Dave has the week off to celebrate his birthday, but Vince Garcia and Mark discuss a Feb 14th, 2022 article, by Frances Dinkelspiel of Berkleyside, “UC Berkeley must slash new enrollment by one third unless high [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (16:40) : In this week’s “In the news” segment, we discuss a Jan 13th, 2022 article, “How college applicants embellish essays with sob stories and fake patents. The article is by Isabel Vincent and it appeared in the New York Post. Mark and Dave discuss [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (11:15) : In this week’s “In the news” segment, we discuss Ben Paris Jan 31st, 2022 article, “A Test prep persons analysis of the new SAT” Mark and Dave have a detailed discussion of all of the changes in this new SAT, and then they [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (7:20) : In this week’s “In the news” segment, we do the big “switcheroo” and Lisa tackles an “in the news” question that was sent in and directed to her. It looks at the Windowless 4500 person dorm that Charlie Munger built at UC-Santa Barbara. [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (13:06) : In this week’s “In the news” segment, we discuss two articles on the same topic, that both came out on January 10th, 2022. The first is by Melissa Korn in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Yale, Georgetown, other Top Schools illegally collude to [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (18:28) : this week’s “In the news” segment, a January, 2022 article in The Hechinger Report, by Jon Marcus “Faced with an existential crisis, some colleges do something that is increasingly rare: ADAPT. Mark and Dave look at the specific changes the colleges in the [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (19:34) : In this week’s “In the news” segment, a August 19th, 2021 article in Forbes, by Brennan Barnard “the admission double standard” Mark and Dave discuss how it is not uncommon for the admission officers to expect something of students that they do not [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (8:20) : In this week’s “In the news” segment, a November 1st, 2021 article in the Hechinger Report, by Jon Marcus “From Google ads to NFL sponsorships: Colleges spends billions at marketing themselves to attract students” Mark and Dave discuss how much they are spending, [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (16:05) : In this week’s “In the news” segment, a November 22nd, 2021 article in the Hechinger Report, by jill Barshay “The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year” Mark and Dave discuss why this is happening and what [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (12:28) :In this week’s “In the news” segment, a blog article from the Josiah Barlett center of Public Policy entitled, by Andrew Cline “Is College Worth Is: Usually but not always” Dave and Mark discuss the statistics the blog article shares as they debate if [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (12:25) : In this week’s “In the news” segment, a November 9th, 2021 article by Emma Whitford of “Inside Higher Ed”, “A New push to create a 3-year degree option”. Mark and Dave discuss a new 3-year degree. Is this a good idea or not? [...]