YCBK 385: Students need to think like admissions officers when completing applications

In this episode you will hear:   (02:22) Mark and Julia discuss an article by Rick Clark in Georgia Tech’s blog entitled, “College Admissions Is NOT a form. It’s your story! The article was written on 9/21/2023.    (18:00) Lisa and Mark answer a question from Julia about what to do if your student has learning differences and he doesn’t seem interested in engaging in the college process.   (34:10) 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 2 of 5   Part 2 ü  Marissa continues with open houses as she talks about the logistics like, when are these Open Houses in the calendar and are their cut off dates ü  We transition to discussing overnights and we talk about whether overnights are effective. ü  We discuss the challenges of overnights and why you so seldomly see colleges providing them these days ü  We transition to discussing “admitted student visit programs” ü  Marissa talks about the structure of admitted student visit programs ü  Marissa talks about the role social media plays with admitted students visit programs. ü  Marissa talks about the structure and the various models our there for “admitted student visits”   ü  Marissa talks about what students like to have included in the admitted student visit programs and their Open Houses   ü  Marissa talks about two different models for student panels   (43:40) Recommended Resource-Two different FAFSA 2024-2025 Walkthrough videos that are on YouTube: A 24-minute version by the Kentucky Higher Ed Assistance Authority:  and a second 44 minute version by Best College Aid:   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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