Navigating Admission Strategies at USC

In this episode you will hear:   (02:36) In the News Mark and Julia answer several question from Assaf from Rochester. He has several questions about Honors College’s (23:45) Question from a listener:  Our roundtable is back (Hillary, Susan, Julia, Vince and Mark) and we discuss a few questions from an anonymous mom about the Honors section of the Common App.   (39:50) Interview  Mark interviews Stephen Burd, Editor of the book, Lifting the Veil on Enrollment Management, and Don Hossler, one of the major contributors to the book   Preview of Part 3 §  Stephan and Don talk about some firms leverage financial aid for every single student and Don uses the word, “repulsive” when referring to this practice §  Don tells a story about a dastardly thing he heard one of the bigger firms says at an admissions conference §  Mark asks Don another tough question about financial aid leveraging and he lets us know if he finds the practice ethical or unethical §  Mark asks Don if he feel colleges tracking your web activity and factoring that into decisions, does he see this as ethical or unethical? §  Don tells us whether more public universities are using demonstrated interest than they often let families know §  Stephen talks about another practice he finds to be unethical in recruitment §  Don talks about a director of admission that got fired because the President intentionally wanted him to recruit to reject and he refused to recruit with the purpose of rejecting more students, so he got fired §  Stephen talks about how all of this financial leveraging is hurting colleges financially §  Stephen tells us who he feels is really being hurt by all of this financial aid leveraging §  Stephen and Don go on the hotseat     (57:43) Recommended Resource: How to Raise Successful Kids -- Without Over-Parenting | Julie Lythcott-Haims | TED   (01:13:32) College Spotlight-University of South Carolina Part 2 of 3 with Mark and Lisa       Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe. 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