Podcast Episodes

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (2:10): Andy Strickler and Mark Stucker discuss some trends in college admissions that present challenges to enrollment officers (Length 23 minutes) This week’s interview (25:15): Interview: Lisa interviews two students, a female student who is a freshman in college and a male student who is [...]

NACAC Conference (13:15): Kate Stricklan from CU Boulder and Susan Tree discuss takeaways from the NACAC conference and they share insights into file reading. (Length 20 minutes) Admissions Decisions Discussion (33:54): Mark Stucker and Hillary Dickman discuss some takeaways from the Case Studies, there focus is on key insights we hoped the listeners didn’t miss [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (1:50): Lynda and Mark discuss why they are seeing so much interest in Early Decision to the University of Chicago this year (Length 29 minutes) This week’s interview (30:52): Interview with Daniel Chambliss, author of the book, “How College Works” Part 4 of 4 Dan [...]

Introduction : Kate Stricklan shares her background and then Susan and Kate discussed some of the hot topics college counselors and admission officers were discussing at the recent NACAC conference in Columbus, Ohio. This is your chance to see how admissions committees make decisions. Read the admissions file for Layla on the Yourcollegeboundkid.com website under [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (1:56): Hilary and Mark discuss some new ways that were revealed at the recent Slate conference that AI is being used in college admissions (Length 37 minutes) This week’s interview (38:04): Interview with Daniel Chambliss, author of the book, “How College Works” Part 3 of [...]

In this week's episode you will hear This week’s question : Mark answers a queston from a listener about whether playing a varsity sport in college hurts you from getting a job after college. This is your chance to see how admissions committees make decisions. Read the admissions file for Layla on the Yourcollegeboundkid.com website [...]

In this week's episode you will hear This week’s question (2:00): Vince and Mark answer a question from a listener about the lawsuit against Early Decision. Vince and Mark answer this by discussing a recent article on this topic. (Length 28 minutes) This week’s interview (30:34): Interview with Daniel Chambliss, author of the book, “How [...]

Introduction (9:18) : Lisa and Lynda discuss Lisa’s recent visit to the University of New Hampshire (Length 22 minutes) Question From a Student (31:42) : A student at Berry College who is considering law school, asks a few questions about law school. Jon and Jeff, our two law school partners answer the question. This is [...]

In this week's episode you will hear This week’s question (2:08): Hilary and Mark answer a question from a student from mom from suburban Philly and she wants to know how colleges read athletes that won’t play at their college. Hilary and Mark also discuss our thoughts on passion projects. (Length 34 minutes) This week’s [...]

Introduction : This is your chance to see how admissions committees make decisions. Read the admissions file for Alana Anderson on the Yourcollegeboundkid.com website under the resources tab and then either watch the committee discussion, or listen to it Here is a link for our new YCBK listener survey so you can take the survey: [...]

Introduction : Mark shares two admissions tips from students and he discusses Cal Tech’s new test score policy. Lisa leads a panel discussion of five parents, all listeners of YCBK. The parents open up and reveal the pressure their student faces at school to go to an elite college. Here is a link for our [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (2:42): Vince joins Mark to discuss an article that ran in the Duke Chronicle about Duke admitting 50 students off the waitlist in August. Vince and Mark discuss why this is happening and whether it is happening at other colleges. Mark continues to share insights [...]