In this episode you will hear: (02:30) In The News Julia and Mark discuss an article by Eric Hoover from the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled, FAFSA Fiasco Changed Composition of First-Year Classes at Most Private Colleges (13:22) Question from a listener: Hillary and Mark answer a question from a student who wants to know which colleges are good for indoor rock climbing (27:00) Interview: Gloria and Terry Crawford, Answering FAQ about Glimpse Video Preview of Part 2 of 5 ² Gloria shares the mechanics of how Glimpse works and what costs are involved ² Terry and Gloria answer the question, are there any students that should not submit a Glimpse video ² Terry and Gloria discuss whether some schools use Glimpse as a test of demonstrated interest? ² Gloria gives students advice about what colleges want in their Glimpse and she shares some tips about how to know if what you are thinking about is too elaborate or time-intensive (53:02) College Spotlight-University of Tennessee at Knoxville (Part 2 of 5) Interview with Fabrizio D’Aloisio- Associate Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Executive Director of Undergraduate Admissions Preview of Part 2 ² Fabrizio talks about the markets where UTK regionals are located ² Fabrizio talks about the markets where the Regionals are having great success ² Fabrizio talks about when they decide to phase out trying to penetrate a market ² Fabrizio talks about the factors they use to determine which markets to try to penetrate with a Recruiter Regional ² Fabrizio talks about the mantra that UTK lives by when it comes to reaching out to Tennessee ² Fabrizio gives the breakdown of the applications that are out of state vs in-state ² Fabrizio talks about what the admit rate was in seven years and what it is now ² Fabrizio and I talk about the fallacy of judging a college by its admit rate ² Fabrizio talks about some of the criticisms that come with all of their growth and he explains how he handles it ² Fabrizio talks about how they revamped their whole communication system and how that is one of the biggest things that ² Fabrizio talks about how they revamped their tour guide program and how they see the fruit from those changes ² Fabrizio talks about how they started a counselor fly-in program and how they created a counselor advisory board ² Fabrizio explains why more schools are not doing the counselor fly-in programs that they are doing. ² Fabrizio talks about how they select which counselors they are flying in 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 ...
