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Counselor And Hands‑On Student Vignette
- The podcast opens with a vignette about a high school senior who prefers hands‑on work but faces parental pressure to get a BA.
- The counselor lacks data to tell him whether he'll thrive academically, illustrating the broader counseling failure.
College Suitability Varies By Academic Ability
- Only a minority of high school grads have the academic ability to truly succeed in a traditional four-year BA program.
- Pushing everyone toward a BA ignores differences in academic ability and causes widespread harm and failure.
Rethinking 'Doing Well' With Benchmarks
- A meaningful definition of doing well in college is a 65% chance of earning a 2.7 freshman GPA, which maps to SAT ≈1180.
- That benchmark corresponds to roughly 9–12% of eighteen‑year‑olds, about a top‑10% population.