Podcast Episodes

Introduction : Mark shares two major decisions that were revealed this week, one is about the legality of withholding NIH funding, and the other one is about College Board’s Landscape product Lisa leads a panel discussion of five parents, all listeners of YCBK. The parents open up and reveal the pressure their student faces at [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (5:52): Hilary joins Mark to discuss whether a student should make their eating disorder the subject of their Personal Statement. Mark continues to share insights from an article that the Chronicle of Higher Education Ran Entitled, “The Money Problem No College Can Escape” (Length 35 [...]

Introduction : Susan Tree joins Mark to interview Bob Massa; Bob has 50 years’ experience in admissions and enrollment management, and he shares his insights with us 5 Students ask two partners questions about being an attorney-Part 5 of 5 We end this episode with Jon Wishnia’s wife, Sophie Wests new solo that was just [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (2:00): Vince joins Mark to discuss a NYT Article entitled, “Columbia and Brown Share Race and Admissions Data in Trump Deal”. Mark continues to share insights from an article that the Chronicle of Higher Education Ran Entitled, “The Money Problem No College Can Escape” (Length [...]

Introduction : Susan Tree joins Mark to interview Bob Massa; Bob has 50 years’ experience in admissions and enrollment management, and he shares his insights with us 5 Students ask two partners questions about being an attorney-Part 4 of 5 Here is a link for our new YCBK listener survey so you can take the [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (1:55): Mark continues to share insights from an article that the Chronicle of Higher Education Ran Entitled, “The Money Problem No College Can Escape” (Length 13 minutes) This week’s question (14:22): Lisa and Lynda answer a question from an applicant who wants to know what [...]

Introduction : Susan Tree joins Mark to interview Bob Massa; Bob has 50 years’ experience in admissions and enrollment management, and he shares his insights with us Mark makes some comments about the new LinkedIn College rankings 5 Students ask two partners questions about being an attorney-Part 3 of 5 Here is a link for [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (4:08): Vince and Mark discuss a August 6th article that ran in the Stanford Daily, Stanford’s newspaper about how Stanford will continue supporting legacy admissions, despite the California law that passed to outlaw it. (Length 29 minutes) This week’s interview (33:00): Peg Keogh Interview-Missed Opportunities [...]

Introduction : 5 Students ask two partners questions about being an attorney. A blurb about our new YCBK listener survey. Here is a link so you can take the survey: https://forms.gle/3fSTNw5uUFUxaw3F8 Interview : Susan Tree joins Mark to interview Bob Massa, Bob has 50 years’ experience in admissions and enrollment management and he shares his [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (1:47): Hillary and Mark discuss how being likeable impacts whether a student is admitted or not when their admission file is read. Link to the YCBK listener survey: https://forms.gle/3fSTNw5uUFUxaw3F8 (Length 15 minutes) This week’s interview: Peg Keogh Interview-Missed Opportunities for the FAFSA and CSS PROFILE [...]

Introduction : 5 Students ask two partners questions about being an attorney. Dr. Sarah Sled shares her journey from MIT to 4 Tech powers to being a college counselor; we then discuss our brand new YCBK Survey and we let you know how you can take it. Here is a link so you can take [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (2:29): Hillary and Mark give some tips to help students with the writing in their applications-Part 2 of 3 (Length 16 minutes) This week’s interview: Peg Keogh Interview-Missed Opportunities for the FAFSA and CSS PROFILE (18:40): Part 1 of 5 Peg gives her backstory Peg [...]