In this episode you will hear:   (02:06) In The News Mark and Andy Stricker (Dean of Admissions at Connecticut College) discuss how does athletic recruiting work for students who are applying to selective colleges. 7 of 7 (18:34) Question from a listener:  Our Roundtable is back; this time it is Hillary Dickman, Vince Garcia, Susan Tree and Mark Stucker and they answer a question, do I only submit a score of 5 to a highly selective college   (46:46) Interview  David Graves, a 27-year veteran of the admission office at the University of Georgia does a 2-hour deep dive into helping us understand the University of Georgia-Part 3 of 5   Preview of Part 3 §  David explains why UGA lists the range of the number of AP and IB scores in their profile and he explains why this is not what you think it means §  David answers a question from Mark about whether it is harder to get into UGA if you apply EA, and whether a borderline student is advised to apply in the regular decision round §  David explains the factors that UGA takes into consideration when they do their holistic review of the applicant §  David gives some advice for students about the UGA essay §  David answers the question, does UGA take into consideration the high school that a student is coming from §  David talks about how a file is read if a college doesn’t have AP or IB classes §  David talks about in-state vs out of state admissions and he shares the states where they are experiencing a real surge of admissions §  David talks about whether a student coming from a very underrepresented state is factored as a plus factor or are all out of state schools grouped together §  David talks about how transfer admissions work, is there a guarantee with a certain GPA or is it more nuanced     Recommended Resource: returns in October   College Spotlight-The University of Georgia       Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe. Unfortunately, we will NOT answer questions on the podcast anymore that are emailed in. If you want us to answer a question on the podcast, please use speakpipe.com/YCBK. We feel hearing from our listeners in their own voices adds to the community feel of our podcast.   You can also use this for many other purposes: 1) Send us constructive criticism about how we can improve our podcast 2) Share an encouraging word about something you like about an episode or the podcast in general 3) Share a topic or an article you would like us to address 4) Share a speaker you want us to interview 5) Leave positive feedback for one of our interviewees. We will send your verbal feedback directly to them and I can almost assure you, your positive feedback will make their day.   To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our new monthly admissions newsletter, delivered directly to your email once a month, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign-up popup. We will include many of the hot topics being discussed on college campuses.   Check out our new blog. We write timely and insightful articles on college admissions:   Follow Mark Stucker on Twitter to get breaking college admission news, and updates about the podcast before they go live. You can ask questions on Twitter that he will answer on the podcast. Mark will also share additional hot topics in the news and breaking news on this Twitter feed. Twitter message is also the preferred way to ask questions for our podcast:   https://twitter.com/YCBKpodcast   1. To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ 2. Find the specific episode transcripts for the one you want to search and click the link 3. Find the magnifying glass icon in blue (search feature) and click it 4. Enter whatever word you want to search. I.e. Loans 5. Every word in that episode when the words loans are used