College Admissions - Beyond Headlines

My guests are experts in this space that you wouldn’t have seen
quoted in recent coverage but maybe should’ve. Davin Sweeney is
an independent college counselor with Collegwise who worked for
ten years as an admissions counselor at the University of
Rochester. He also hosts a podcast called “The Crush” featuring
interviews with people who have interesting perspectives to share
on the college and college admissions landscape. Leia Petty is a
HS Guidance Counselor of ten years and social justice activist
living in Brooklyn, NY. And Luke Nonas-Hunter is a high school
senior in NYC's High School for Math Science and Engineering,
recently released from the arduous process of college admissions
- he'll be a freshman at Olin College in September.


My guests are experts in this space that you wouldn’t have seen
quoted in recent coverage but maybe should’ve.


Links from this episode:



Doug Webber on The Crush:
https://www.crushpodcast.com/doug-webber-2/


Mark Moody, The Myth of Fit:
https://msquaredcollegecounselor.wordpress.com/


What was that test in China? The Gaokao:
https://www.businessinsider.com/sample-questions-from-chinas-gaokao-one-of-worlds-toughest-tests-2018-6


Dr. Wayne Au:
https://www.uwb.edu/education/about/faculty/wayneau


Fairtest.org - list of test-optional colleges:
http://fairtest.org/


John Bockenstedt - Higher Ed Data Stories:
https://highereddatastories.blogspot.com/






In the News



Link, New York Times: Operation
Varsity Blues


Link: HuffPost Stanford Accepts No
One: Just to be clear: Bruni’s column was satire, a jokey riff
about how colleges and universities take outsize pride in
trumpeting how many applicants they reject. In reality,
Stanford announced last week that
2,063 high school students have been admitted to the
class of 2020, giving the Bay Area school an acceptance rate of
4.69 percent — not zero percent.









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