College Institutional Priorities: Understanding Who Gets In with Aly Beaumont and Flourish Coaching
Thank you @Lisa Marker Robbins for having me on the podcast. Your knowledge of fit to major and understanding how major impacts future aspirations is awesome. I really enjoyed the conversation and love the takeaways you summarized below. Knowledge is power in this process.
From Flourish Coaching
In this episode, Lisa and Aly discuss:
Common institutional priorities of colleges that drive admissions decisions for your teen.
Factors colleges consider beyond GPAs, test scores, extracurricular activities, and more (all outside of your student’s control).
Why where to apply and when to apply affect if your teen gets admitted.
What impacted majors are and how they can affect your student.
Clues colleges give about their institutional priorities and how you can find them.
Key Takeaways:
Colleges are more concerned about creating a graduating class as a whole than about your student specifically.
Students learn better when they are learning with people who are not exactly like them.
An impacted major at one college is not the same at another. You can utilize sites like College Navigator to understand how many students are graduating in a particular major.
It’s not the size of the school, it’s what your student does there that makes it feel bigger or smaller.
Being more selective does not make a school better; it just makes them more selective.
“This is a highly charged process these days. It’s very emotional for families. It’s very stressful for families. It’s not a personal process. The reality is, this isn’t really about you. This is really about what colleges need to create this diversified class.” – Aly Beaumont
https://www.flourishcoachingco.com/podcast/123-college-institutional-priorities-understanding-who-gets-in-with-aly-beaumont/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3oIkS6MkbEGXmHiBhBXtbzJLz_lFrBxgMVxw70_WNpod3FISE3Fpv7hhw_aem_AeaPkZkgh4jrN_GBw3jLm8F-DdwJt7ZnKez836njplicXfl39nX7RWaVjGrq1BR3NHqvAIRGo_Qy5pAETjLk0Plt