In this week’s episode you will hear

Question from a Listener (2:02): Number 1 – Hillary joins me to discuss a question from a student named Saul from New Hampshire, Saul wants to know, he has heard that some schools use likes and shares to test demonstrated interest and he wants to know if this is correct? (Length 9 minutes)

Question from a Listener (11:05): Question 2 -If a student uses a fee waiver, does it stigmatize the student and hurt their chances of admission at Need-Aware colleges? A mom from Maryland asks this question and Julia joins me to answer it (Length 15 minutes)

This week’s interview (26:57): Interview #1-Lisa interviews Adrienne Amador-Oddi: Part 2 of 2

• We start out by playing a very concrete example of how a conversation for a school to re-consider their original financial offer that is productive looks like. I played this last week but it is so important I am playing this example again to reinforce it if you heard that segment, and for those who missed last week, I didn’t want you to miss this important example
• Lisa asks Adrienne how should a family initiate an appeal for reconsideration for more money and Adrienne shares some of the different approaches that different schools use
• Adrienne talks about how a family can know how much merit aid they can expect to get from a school
• Adrienne talks about how more and more colleges are doing an early (Length 17 minutes)

Interview #2: Mark Stucker and Bob McMahan, President of Kettering University – Preview of Part 2 of 5(43:38)

• Bob lets us know the size of Kettering
• Bob talks about the unique focus of Kettering
• Dr. McMahan shares about a half dozen areas where Kettering is particularly strong other than in auto-related majors
• Bob shares the unique advantage that Kettering grads have
• Bob gives us more details on how the co-op programs work for Kettering students
• Bob tells us about the senior thesis and the patents Kettering is known for
• Bob walks us through what the Kettering onboarding process is
• Bob talks about what the Kettering student is like
• Bob talks about how they help guide the student that doesn’t know what he or she wants to do

Recommended Resource (26:14): Guide to help first year students complete the Common Application- Application guide for first-year students

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