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YCBK 490: Everything You Need to Know About Early Decision-Interview w/Andy Strickler-Part 4/4
- 2024/12/09
- 再生時間： 1 時間 20 分
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In this episode you will hear: Mark interviews Andy Strickler-Everything you need to know about Early Decision 1 and Early Decision 4 of 4 Preview of Part 4 of 4 § Andy talks about converting your regular decision application to an ED2 app, is this okay and if so, what is the deadline when a student needs to do this? § Andy talks about whether he expects a family to complete the net price calculator before they apply Early Decision § Andy answers questions our listeners have about why colleges don’t share their ED 2 admit rates § Andy talks about the kids that 5% of kids who apply ED, are admitted and don’t come every year and he tells us about how many of these kids fall into the 3 reasons why ED admits do not end up coming (15) § Andy answers the question, does a student lose their financial leverage for merit scholarships if they apply Mark interviews Jin Chow Part 2-Preview § Jin explains how Polygence benefits the students that participate and complete a project § Jin explains the meaning of the word Polygence § Jin talks about when students do their Polygence projects § Jin answers the question, “Isn’t, Polygence just furthering the gap between well-resourced and under-resourced families § Jin makes some excellent points about invisible privilege, and she challenges the conventional notion of “pay to play” § Jin talks about the partial and full scholarships that they give out § Jin talks about the objection, what would you say to the person who says most of the mentors are not industry experts but actually grad students? § Jin talks about the challenge that most places where students get published that is meaningful takes longer than a few months, so isn’t the promise of possibly getting published an overpromise § Jin talks about when they reject families who apply for Polygence § Jin talks about the sign-up process and the Polygence application Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe. Unfortunately, we will NOT answer questions on the podcast anymore that are emailed in. If you want us to answer a question on the podcast, please use speakpipe.com/YCBK. We feel hearing from our listeners in their own voices adds to the community feel of our podcast. 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. We will send your verbal feedback directly to them and I can almost assure you, your positive feedback will make their day. To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our new monthly admissions newsletter, delivered directly to your email once a month, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign-up popup. We will include many of the hot topics being discussed on college campuses. Check out our new blog. We write timely and insightful articles on college admissions: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/blog/ Follow Mark Stucker on Twitter to get breaking college admission news, and updates about the podcast before they go live. You can ask questions on Twitter that he will answer on the podcast. Mark will also share additional hot topics in the news and breaking news on this Twitter feed. Twitter message is also the preferred way to ask questions for our podcast: https://twitter.com/YCBKpodcast 1. To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ 2. Find the specific episode transcripts for the one you want to search and click the link 3. Find the magnifying glass icon in blue (search feature) and click it 4. Enter whatever word you want to search. I.e. Loans 5. Every word in that episode when the words loans are used, will be highlighted in yellow with a timestamps 6. Click the word highlighted in yellow and the player will play the episode from that starting point 7. You can also download the entire podcast as a transcript We would be honored if you will pass this podcast episode on to others who you feel will benefit from the content in YCBK. Please subscribe to our podcast. It really helps us move up in Apple’s search feature so others can find our podcast. If you enjoy our podcast, would you please do us a favor and share our podcast both verbally and on social media? We would be most grateful! If you want to help more people find Your College-Bound Kid, please make sure you follow our podcast. You will also get instant notifications as soon as each episode goes live. Check out the college admissions books Mark recommends: https://...