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The Crush

Davin Sweeney

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As a college admissions counselor, I think “The Crush” sums up the way most people feel about the college admissions process and the college experience itself. High school students fall into a deep infatuation with a potential future alma mater, maybe even many, and work themselves into ulcerous, sleepless fits trying to find a way to get noticed and give them a chance. And then there’s the other kind of crush....the physical weight of it all. The pressure of expectations for yourself, your ...
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ron-Lieber..mp3 Ron Lieber recently completed writing a book called “The Price You Pay for College,” and if you’re interested enough in this stuff such that you’re listening to this, then you should read this book. He was kind enough to check out this show and he says it was actually pretty he…
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Marlene-Daut.mp3 In the United States, just 6% of college faculty members are Black. It’s a really tough career pathway for anyone, but as we’ll learn from my guest today, there are so many additional hurdles to clear if you are Black. Marlene Daut is Professor of African Diaspora Studies at t…
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PuertoRico.mp3 Puerto Rico is subject to a number of unique barriers to accessing college whether they leave the island or stay. These barriers simply don’t exist for any other US state or territory and are a direct result of its colonial relationship with the United States. It’s an issue clos…
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Mark-Moody-and-Mindy-Rose..mp3 The coronavirus has forced some wildly unprecedented anxieties into an already extremely anxious space. Mindy Rose and Mark Moody of Shanghai American School have had to roll with the punches in a very unique college counseling community. FURTHER READING Open Doo…
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Jon-Boeckenstedt.mp3 Jon Boeckenstedt is as fearless as he is smart as he is dedicated to Doing The Right Thing as a leader in the realm of college enrollment management. He’s one of these people that everyone in our field looks to first with questions that require evidence-based answers, and …
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Phil-Walsh.mp3 The humanities are in a tough spot these days, and the discipline of philosophy often ends up in the crosshairs as an exemplar of Undergrad Majors That Will Waste Your Time and Money. Good news though: it isn’t! Dr. Phil Walsh is a lecturer at Fordham University in the Departmen…
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Sam-Schreiber.mp3 It’s fall! Which means this is the time of year when legions of college admissions counselors traverse the globe to find those eager minds to fill the seats in their classrooms. It is a whole hashtag life that thousands of people in this economy lead and in my case have lead.…
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Andrew-Moe.mp3 Dr. Andrew Moe is the Director of Admission at Swarthmore College and has been leading a national effort to focus the eyes of his colleagues more on students coming from rural communities. Andrew has been organizing his efforts mainly via the National Association of College Admi…
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Marie-Bigham.mp3 In the summer of 2016, a Facebook group emerged to quickly become the primary space in which professionals on all sides of college admissions would gather to discuss the challenges and potential solutions to some really hard problems. For instance, how do we make the spaces th…
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Susan-Matt.mp3 Soon children everywhere will be saying goodbye to their parents and to their communities and the times and the places that made them into the adults they’re on their way to becoming in college. Dr. Susan Matt, Presidential Distinguished Professor of History at Weber State Unive…
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https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Eric-Hoover..mp3 If you pay attention to the world of college admissions, then you not only know this guy, chances are he’s helped you form your understanding of what goes on in said world. Eric Hoover has been writing about admissions for about as long as current college freshmen have been al…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Marybeth-Gasman..mp3 Professor Marybeth Gasman is the Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions and a professor of education. Soon she’s moving herself and her center to Rutgers University in New Jersey. In this country, there are over 700 2 and 4-year colleges and universit…
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E10•04.04.2019 Some thought about the different types of family there are! Me, my kids and my husband:: single mom, single dad, husband and wife and her kids, my three kids from 3 different men, parenting again with my husband raising my grandchildren ❤️❤️❤️ so many different situations!
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Eric-Hoover-Emergency-Podcast.mp3 This week it became known via a federal indictment that rich people used their wealth to break the law in a variety of appalling ways, all with a mind to skip the line and receive guaranteed admission to famous/elite/highly-selective colleges. Nobody knows more…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Doug-Webber-The-Sequel.mp3 Temple University Economics Professor Doug Webber does some fascinating research on the impact of our academic choices in college. In a world plagued by a lust for prestige, how much does it really matter in terms of your ability to earn a good living? I’m thrilled to…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Josh-Hunt.mp3 Nike and Oregon – the state as well as its flagship university – go way back, and their relationship became a template for underfunded state universities all over the country. Josh Hunt takes a deep dive into this complicated and painful reality in his new book, “The University of…
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Emmi Harward is the Executive Director of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS), and it’s her job to keep her finger on the pulse of the college counseling profession so she can help her members do their best work helping kids apply to college. As they put it “ACCIS is a national membership organization providing supp…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Annie-Reznik.mp3 The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success emerged 3 years ago to provide an alternative application platform for, at first, 32 colleges, and now over 150 of them. Executive Director Annie Reznik is helping this group of colleges execute a mission to improve the colle…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Eric-Waldo.mp3 Reach Higher is former First Lady Michelle Obama’s college access initiative, operating under the leadership of my guest this episode, Eric Waldo. He’s hard at work countering the systematic efforts to dismantle the education policies of his old bosses, Barack Obama, Arne Duncan …
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Bart-Grachan.mp3 6 million people attend community colleges in this country, and yet we somehow don’t tend to consider it as “college.” Bart Grachan earns his keep doing everything he can to help students succeed at LaGuardia Community College, and also to helping us all change the conversation…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Alexander-Clark.mp3 It’s a company with a loyal following to rival almost any brand, and everyone in college admissions is buying it. Slate is the technology of choice that admissions offices use to read applications and manage every interaction that students make with that office, from mailing…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Stanley-Nelson.mp3 Stanley Nelson has been making movies for a long time, and his latest film – airing Monday, February 19th on PBS – called “Tell Them We Are Rising” is the first of its kind fo explore the topic of Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs. NYC native Stanley talke…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Nathan-Grawe.mp3 Professor Nathan Grawe of Carleton College developed a demographic model which says that ’round about 2030 this country is going to lose a giant share of its population of college-going age. How will this impact colleges and universities and how will it impact each kind of high…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/FernandaZamudioSuarez.mp3 Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez visited the island of Puerto Rico to see how people were recovering at its most important institution of higher education, the University of Puerto Rico. Her story – available in both English and Spanish – …
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Scott-Looney.mp3 The Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC) is a group of over 150 private schools that have coalesced around an idea that our current model of grading students is not only outdated, but harmful to their development. Scott Looney is the Head of School at the Hawken School in Clevel…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Akil-Bello.mp3 Akil Bello is a friend of mine who is also one of these odd sorts who concerns himself in life with all things Standardized Test. Following up from Episode 4 where I pledge to take the SAT, I finally sit down to register to do it, which in itself can take up to an hour. Naturally…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Andrew-Ho.mp3 So we have literally all of humanity’s knowledge at our fingertips thanks to the Internet, and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are making it easier to get more education to more people for free. Dr. Andrew Ho has done research on MOOCs and their impact and assessing the knowle…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Doug-Webber.mp3 New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo recently championed and passed the nation’s first plan to offer free college tuition to state residents attending state public colleges called “The Excelsior Scholarship.” Free always sounds good, but does it make for good policy? Professor Doug …
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ProfMichaelBastedo.mp3 Right now, college applicants are anxiously waiting to hear back from the colleges they applied to, while legions of admissions counselors read their applications and those of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of their fellow applicants. That’s a lot of decisions to mak…
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http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Lew-Frederick-Part-2.mp3 I needed to go back to something that I think Oregon State Representative Lew Frederick is uniquely qualified to talk about and something that’s been on my mind almost every day since about the 2nd presidential debate: and that is, is Donald Trump racist? And if he is, …
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