515 Episodes

  1. YCBK 134: Hundreds of Colleges/Universities Show Financial Warning Signs

    Published: 8/20/2020
  2. YCBK 133: Rethinking Effective Student Learning Experiences

    Published: 8/13/2020
  3. YCBK 132: Panicked Universities Adding Thousands of New Majors

    Published: 8/6/2020
  4. YCBK 131: Pandemic Hurts Student Mental Health

    Published: 7/30/2020
  5. YCBK 130: New International Students to US May Hit Post WW2 Low

    Published: 7/23/2020
  6. YCBK 129: Williams College Cuts Tuition and Fall Semester Sports

    Published: 7/16/2020
  7. YCBK 128: UC Regents Declare Support to End Race-Blind Admissions

    Published: 7/9/2020
  8. YCBK 127: The End of Colleges as We Knew It?

    Published: 7/2/2020
  9. YCBK 126: Colleges Are Deluding Themselves on Safe Reopen

    Published: 6/25/2020
  10. YCBK 125: New Evidence Documents that College Degrees Pay Off- By A Lot

    Published: 6/18/2020
  11. YCBK 124: Brown University Cuts 11 of Its Varsity Sports

    Published: 6/11/2020
  12. YCBK 123: Public Schools May Not Be Public Much Longer

    Published: 6/4/2020
  13. YCBK 122: University of CA Suspends SAT/ACT Requirement

    Published: 5/28/2020
  14. YCBK 121: More Scrutiny of Legacy Admissions

    Published: 5/21/2020
  15. YCBK 120: The importance of kindness in college admissions

    Published: 5/14/2020
  16. YCBK 119: Many Seniors Are Too Uncertain to Commit to a College

    Published: 5/7/2020
  17. YCBK 118: “The Big If” Will colleges return to residential education in the fall

    Published: 4/30/2020
  18. YCBK 117: Test-optional Does Not Mean Test Blind

    Published: 4/23/2020
  19. YCBK 116: Financial Hits Pile Up for Colleges due to COVID-19

    Published: 4/16/2020
  20. YCBK 115: How COVID-19 has Changed Plans for Prospective Students

    Published: 4/9/2020

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Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission InterviewsAdmission Interviews Our mission is to "make college knowledge available to all." Each Thursday, the "Your College-Bound Kid" podcast will discuss a hot college topic in the news; we will answer a question or two that listeners send in, we will interview a "thought leader" in the world of college admissions, and do a "deep-dive," we call Spotlights on a College. Every Monday, we have a second episode to discuss a "hot topic" and interview a "thought leader" in the admissions or college life world. YCBK combines "in-depth knowledge" with a light, easy-to-listen conversational style. We have eight co-hosts, six college counselors, and two current admissions officers, including an Admissions Dean