YCBK 383: What to do when you submit an admission application with an error

In this episode you will hear:   (04:40) Mark and Julia introduce an article entitled, A New Push to Assess “Character in College Admissions” that appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Susan and Mark spend the first 30 minutes talking about a range of admission topics and then they dive in and discuss this July 27th Eric Hoover article. Their whole discussion is over 70 minutes, and it will air in two part; this is part 2 and it continues the conversation about the article.   (34:02) Mark and Julia answer a question from Katie from Texas about how colleges divide the country into recruitment regions   (58:54) Mark interviews Marissa Salizar in what will be a five part series that will be over 90 minutes, that will do a deep dive on all things college visit. Marissa is over all the visitation programs at Colorado College, and we cover: “Open Houses, “overnight visits”, “admitted-student visits”, “fly-in programs’ and “self-guided tours”   Part 1 Preview of Part 1 ü  Marissa gives her backstory and the various roles she has had ü  Marissa describes how the open house differs from other college visits ü  Marissa describes who the Open House is best designed for ü  Marissa explains some different models that different schools use for their Open Houses ü  Marissa discusses how Open Houses relate to “Yield”   (01:11:00) Recommended Resource: Many students attending southern colleges qualify for in-state tuition to study at out-of-state southern institutions in the ACM consortium.    Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe.   You can also use this for many other purposes: 1) Send us constructive criticism about how we can improve our podcast 2) Share an encouraging word about something you like about an episode or the podcast in general 3) Share a topic or an article you would like us to address 4) Share a speaker you want us to interview 5) Leave positive feedback for one of our interviewees. 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