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Podcast: Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Podcast
Episode: Avoiding The Pageant Approach To College Admissions
Description: Traditional beauty pageants typify the kind of competition where contestants do everything possible to be judged positively by a group of complete strangers. Unfortunately, selective college admissions can feel like this as well, unless applicants learn a better way. Amy and Mike invited educator Neill Seltzer to discuss how to avoid the pageant approach to college admissions. What are five things you will learn in this episode? What's wrong with the beauty pageant approach to admissions? What are some eternal truths of college admissions? Why is an empowerment model of admissions the best approach? What is t...