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Every season, we take a few interviews way too long to fit into a regular episode of the Lunchcast. Sometimes, the content is just too good to leave on the cutting room floor.

When that happens, we bring these extended interviews as a J Term or Summer Session.

That's what happened during our conversation with Paul McGinnis, Vice President of Marketing and Enrollment at Bethel University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Enjoy this extended interview, from season seven's episode, "Admissions as a Business."

Every season, we take a few interviews way too long to fit into a regular episode of the Lunchcast. Sometimes, the content is just too good to leave on the cutting room floor.

When that happens, we bring these extended interviews as a J Term or Summer Session.

That's what happened during our conversation with Thom Golden, Founder and CEO of Golden Educational Consulting in Hendersenville, Tennessee, discussing the program he has put together to help folks come over to the independent side.

Enjoy this extended interview, from season seven's episode, "Going Independent."

We meant to publish this extended interview last July, but we just kept putting it off.

Okay, enough procrastination jokes.

Each season, we find a few conversations go way too long to fit into a regular episode of the Lunchcast, and we bring them here, to the J Term or Summer Session episodes. Given the format of the last season, we didn't have any - fortunately, this interview with Laurie Kopp Weingarten, President of One-Stop College Counseling in Marlboro, New Jersey was in the vault. During season seven, the Counselor's Choice season, she brought forward the topic and challenge of student procrastination.

Enjoy this interview, currently aged about a year, about an enduring challenge for all of us.

Every season, we have a few interviews that run long - and we release the extended cuts later. Given the format change for the last season, we didn't have that - which means it's quite fortunate that we had this great conversation from season seven.

Originally published in March, 2024, during our Counselor's Choice season, we had this great conversation with Kerri Caruso, College Scholarship Coordinator at Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana to bring you.

We intentionally held this extended cut back until January, because although the interview is almost a year old, this is the perfect time for the reminder to have onboarding development plans that can launch at any point in time.

The Admissions Directors Lunchcast recently launched an exclusive video podcast series - Lunchcast Live. Twice a month, Teege and Nathan will welcome a guest to discuss a hot topic on their mind. The interview will often be shared here, but the full conversation with the audience is available only to members of the Lunchcast community. If you would like to be added to the invitation list, email adlunchcast@gmail.com.

For this Lunchcast Live, we were joined by Seinquis Leinen, Senior Director of Strategic Enrollment Management at North Dakota State University discussing staff morale.

The Admissions Directors Lunchcast recently launched an exclusive video podcast series - Lunchcast Live. Twice a month, Teege and Nathan will welcome a guest to discuss a hot topic on their mind. The interview will often be shared here, but the full conversation with the audience is available only to members of the Lunchcast community. If you would like to be added to the invitation list, email adlunchcast@gmail.com. For this Lunchcast Live, we were joined by Meghan Cooley, Writer, Speaker, and Consultant, from Meghan Cooley Consulting, to discuss the current trends and best practices with parent communications.

The Admissions Directors Lunchcast recently launched an exclusive video podcast series - Lunchcast Live. Twice a month, Teege and Nathan will welcome a guest to discuss a hot topic on their mind. The interview will often be shared here, but the full conversation with the audience is available only to members of the Lunchcast community. If you would like to be added to the invitation list, email adlunchcast@gmail.com.

For this Lunchcast Live, we were joined by Seth Harris, Senior Principal, Financial Aid Optimization at EAB to update us all on FAFSA 2025.

Okay, let's get into it. What's happening on TikTok as it relates to the college search process, and what should colleges do to manage it?

Jenna Shulman, founder and owner of Get Me Into College helps us see how students are leveraging TikTok as a tool in the college search process.

Natasha Caudill, Digital Communications Specialist at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois steps in as the practitioner with tangible examples of how she manages the Knox College TikTok account.

You've heard them - now let's talk about them. In this episode, we want to address what some of the most common student misconceptions are, and focus on what we should do about them.

Butch Hamilton, Director of College Advising at Saint Mary’s Raiken High School in Lennertown, Maryland and a Certified Educational Planner and Educational Consultant at Golden Educational Consulting begins the conversation as our influencer guest.

John Pyle, Senior Vice President of Strategy, Enrollment, and Growth at St. Catherine’s University in St. Paul, Minnesota carries the conversation forward with some specific examples he runs into as our practitioner guest.

Is this a podcast about ocean life, or college admissions? It might take you a few minutes into the episode to be sure. But, to end the suspense, this episode is about learning loss, and the impact to colleges hovering just below the surface of the demographic cliff.

Ed Venit, Managing Director of Strategic Research at EAB shares with us the results of research and futuring work they've done to understand what's to come. Kate Massey, Academic and College Counselor at Ben Franklin High School in New Orleans, Louisiana then comes in as our influencer guest, helping us put the math shark fears into context of what she's seeing on the ground.

If you follow higher ed news, you'd think small colleges everywhere are falling faster than when a quarter push machine is shaken. Of course, for every story told about a small college that is struggling or worse - there are stories that aren't told.

So how (and why) are some small colleges thriving in this environment?

To answer that, we have two outstanding guests.

Scott Novak, The Small College Guy from SmallCollegeMovement.com starts the conversation as an influencer, identifying what's going right at small colleges.

Rachael Stock, Dean of Admissions & Recruiting at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois joins us as a practitioner, helping to dissect what it means when a college is intentionally small.

We've talked about all the different directions enrollment leaders go when they move on: the dark side - the high school side - the independent counseling side - this week we explore a whole new angle: K-12 Admissions.

Kevin Napp, Director of Admissions at Gaston Day School in Gastonia, North Carolina, gets us started sharing his journey of just such a transition.

Jade Dominique an Independent Education Consultant at JADE College Counseling helps us understand her story, making a similar transition.

For the second year in a row, The Admissions Directors Lunchcast has sponsored a survey on the state of morale in college admissions.

You can view the full report here. Additionally, this research will be discussed at the first Lunchcast Live event in October and the Lunchcast Lectures event in Milwaukee in June, 2025.

The first order of business, however, is bringing in a rockstar guest with a certain cross-over appeal. Ken Anselment, Vice President of Enrollment at RHB, Host of The Admissions Leadership Podcast, and Author of the forthcoming book: Climbing the Admissions Leadership Peak: Lessons from the ALP.

Perhaps more significant than all that: Ken has always been a leader in staying attuned to the morale of his team and making adjustments when necessary.

For this special episode, Ken shares his reactions to and insights from the 2024 Morale in Admissions Report.

We're as surprised as you are.

The Admissions Directors Lunchcast has officially crossed over 15,000 unique listens since we launched a few years ago.

For that reason, we're thrilled to announce a new initiative: Lunchcast Live. This talk show style series will be available only to members of the Lunchcast community for an intriguing conversation twice-monthly.

If you're interested in an invitation, email adlunchcast@gmail.com ... or contact either Nathan or Teege some other way.

It is easily the hottest topic of the year in college admissions - the appropriate and reasonable use of artificial intelligence in the world of college admissions.

How and where can this new technology by used to help, create efficiencies, and improve the process?

Emily Smith, Vice President of Partner Success at CollegeVine kicks the conversation off with a top-of-the-funnel discussion, including a delightful conversation with Sara, the AI Recruiter.

Elizabeth Kirby, Director of Partnerships at PeopleGrove comes in to share her experience applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to the middle of the funnel.

Do virtual tours still work after the pandemic?

It's a resounding yes from us, and our guest, Andrew Klotz, Co-Founder and CEO of Circuit Virtual Tours, based in Toronto, Ontario.

Let's take a different look at international students - specifically, Americans going to study in Europe. This week focuses on the reasons some families are looking to study overseas, and how European colleges are trying to crack open the North American market. There are lessons in here for all of us.

Sara Bitner, Co-Founder and Head Education Advisor at Launch Education Advisors, gets us started with the perspective of an influencer.

Iain Harris, International Recruitment Manager of the Americas at Northumbria, in the United Kingdom continues the conversation, with the mindset of an admissions professional.

Ever the hot topic, we're tackling the best practices for communicating with parents through the college admissions process. After scouting them at the Illinois ACAC conference last spring, Nathan asked them to bring the insights from their presentation to our listeners.

Christopher Chiakulas, Post-Secondary Counselor at Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, gets us started with the perspective of an influencer.

Erin Soroosh, Senior Regional Enrollment Manager at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio continues the conversation, with the mindset of an admissions professional.

At long last, The Admissions Directors Lunchcast comes back for an eighth season. We've got an intriguing slate of topics coming your way, every Tuesday from now until the end of October. If you just can't wait to see who's coming each week, this quick teaser episode will give you the inside scoop early.

Every season, a few interviews need just a bit more space than we can fit into our regular format. When the full interview can't fit into one hour, we catch up in between seasons to give an unedited conversation. Originally published as one of two interviews for our episode on "Supporting Black Students and Families", we now bring you the extended conversation with Dr. Paris Wicker, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York.

Enjoy this extended conversation, where we dig much deeper with Dr. Wicker about the implications of her research for admissions directors.

Every season, a few interviews need just a bit more space than we can fit into our regular format. When the full interview can't fit into one hour, we catch up in between seasons to give an unedited conversation.

Originally published as part of our episode, "Getting The Most Out Of Visits in March, our conversation with Kate Hooper, Senior Associate Director of Admissions for Prospective Student Visit Experiences at Northern Michigan University, in Marquette, Michigan, discusses how she makes the visit program work so well at her institution.

Enjoy this extended conversation with Kate Hooper about how colleges can get the most out of a campus visit.

Every season, a few interviews need just a bit more space than we can fit into our regular format. When the full interview can't fit into one hour, we catch up in between seasons to give an unedited conversation. Originally published as one of two interviews for our episode on "Supporting Black Students and Families", we now bring you the extended conversation with Katie Mathews, Professional School Counselor at Northside College Prep High School in Chicago, Illinois.

Every season, a few interviews need just a bit more space than we can fit into our regular format. When the full interview can't fit into one hour, we catch up in between seasons to give an unedited conversation.

Originally published as part of our episode, "Getting The Most Out Of Visits in March, our conversation with Jenna Shulman, Independent Educational Consultant with Jenna Shulman College Consulting, in Florham Park, New Jersey, was too long to fit into one episode. However, the conversation was too good to keep to ourselves.

Enjoy this extended conversation with Jenna Shulman about how colleges can get the most out of a campus visit.

Wrapping up the Counselor's Choice season, we bring you the hot topic: is college admissions a business?

Of course, the answer probably isn't plainly "yes" or "no" - but where on the spectrum between those two answers do we land? Where should we land?

To guide us through this, we have Jennifer Jessie, also known as Jenn The Tutor, from Northern Virginia, thinking through the implications of this question as it relates to students and families.

Then, Paul McGinnis, Vice President of Enrollment at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, helps us understand how the world of business does and does not, inform the business function of college admissions.

You've thought about it.

Those of us who've been through a few Aprils in this job have considered it at least once - making the leap to independent educational consulting.

This week, we're discussing just that - why are admissions leaders considering moving over, what's changed in the last few years, and what's the difference between those who decide to do it and those who don't.

We are thrilled to bring you two great guests to speak on this topic.

Kristina Dooley, Founder and President at Estrela Consulting in Hudson, Ohio, and the Immediate Past President of the Independent Educational Consultants Association starts the conversation with her story, and what she's seen from people considering the move.

Dr. Thom Golden, Founder and CEO of Golden Educational Consulting in Hendersenville, Tennesse, describes the program he's built to help professionals make the move.

Like a time capsule to our future selves, from time to time, we check in on the enduring hot topics in our profession. This week, at the suggestion of our influencer guest, we're discussing the state of test-optional admissions in 2024.

Moira McKinnon, Director of College Counseling at Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Maine, helps us understand how students today are interpreting the myriad of test-optional admissions policies they have to navigate.

Jim Gibbons, Director of Admissions at Wagner College, in Staten Island, New York, brings the college perspective to help current admissions directors navigate and clarify their policies for students.

We are fortunate to offer this special episode of the Partner Series, sponsored by CampusESP.

We are joined by Leslie Gale, Vice President of Customer Success at CampusESP, sharing results from ongoing research projects that will help all of us better serve black students and families.

We all do this work to best serve students - and this week we're holding a focused conversation on how we can best support Black students and families through the college admissions process.

The conversation starts with Katie Mathews, Professional School Counselor at Northside College Prep High School in Chicago, Illinois. Katie suggested this topic, and leads the conversation with insights and observations from working with students through the process.

Then, we have an absolute powerhouse in Dr. Paris Wiscker, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. Paris recently published new research on well-being among students of color in the college admissions process.

The article is available for download here: "Well-being Consciousness and College Access Borderlands" by Paris D. Wicker (wmich.edu).

Campus visits are important components of every college's recruitment and yield program. Having an opportunity to help students learn about campus life is critical.

But what's the other side of that equation? What should colleges be learning about students during a campus visit to assist in finding a match?

This topic was recommended by our influencer guest, Jenna Shulman, Independent Educational Consultant with Jenna Shulman College Consulting in Florham Park, New Jersey.

Bringing the practitioner perspective is an expert in the campus visit experience, Kate Hooper, Senior Associate Director of Admissions for Prospective Student Visit Experiences at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.

It's another week of Counselor's Choice Topics! This week, we're discussing college application essays - but in a different twist. Instead of thinking about this from the student perspective, we're thinking about it from the other side of the desk.

What is the fair and appropriate use of the application essay in an admissions process? Should we ever use the content to determine there's not a good fit? How has the current state of college admissions impacted this component of the applciation package?

Kim Lifton, President and Co-Founder of Wow Writing Workshop in Detroit, Michigan opens the discussion with her perspectives on how these essays are being written and should be reviewed.

Jacob Browne, Dean of Admission at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida to talk about how college admissions counselors and Deans should review the essays.

We intended to talk about this a few seasons ago, but kept putting it off.

Just kidding. This season, the theme is Counselor's Choice - each week, we bring on an influencer who has identified a topic that needs to be discussed with Admissions Directors in 2024.

This week, it's the challenge of procrastination among students.

We begin with Laurie Kopp Weingarten, President of One-Stop College Counseling in Marlboro, New Jersey, who shares her observations and insights from working with students.

Then, Falone Serna, Dean of Undergraduate Admission & Outreach at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California, tackles the problem from the college perspective.

It's a fact of life in our profession: we can no longer plan for a thorough, comprehensive training program in August to onboard new counselors. Today's admissions counselors are starting year-round, they're leaving year-round, and there's no reason to believe things are changing any time soon.

With this new staffing model, what is the best approach for training, development, and retention of staff? How does it impact the school counselor/college admissions relationship? What do we need to change moving forward?

This week's School Counselor's Choice topic was selected by Kerri Carusso, College Scholarship Coordinator at Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana, who shares what she's been seeing on the ground to compel this conversation.

We are then joined by our practitioner guest, Brian Hodges, Senior Associate Director of Recruitment and Outreach at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, in Urbana, Illinois.

We are fired up for the next season of The Admissions Directors Lunchcast!

This time, we took a different approach to developing the content: we asked influencers (school counselors, independent educational consultants, and community-based organization professionals) to tell us what topics they think admissions directors should be thinking about this year.

This season, we have sixteen outstanding guests taking on eight pressing topics in our profession. Beginning March 12, you can expect another episode every week, all the way up to May 1!

While we were all taken aback by the news of the FAFSA delay, we do not need to just wait for the ISIRs to finally arrive.

We tracked Nathan down in the South of France to record our initial reactions, with tangible, immediate tips and strategies that Admissions Directors can deploy today to minimize the negative impact, or even find benefit from this delay.

As a rare treat, the video version of this podcast is available at crowdcast.io/c/fafsadelay

It was a great week for us when we were able to release an interview with one of the leading voices in the intersection between admissions and financial aid: Ellen Johnson, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Enjoy this extended conversation, where we were able to dive in even deeper with Ellen about how counselors can better serve students, and what holds them back.

Everyone loves a good set of travel tips. This week, you can listen in on the extended conversation we had with Melissa Lustic, Director of College Counseling at The Meadows School in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Yes, like always, we did get around to "life before GPS."

Financial aid is always a hot topic - especially the year we are recording in August for an episode in October about financial aid when the FAFSA is scheduled to be released in December with an extended interview dropping in January.

This extended cut comes from everything we discussed after the interview with Sara English, Post-Secondary Counselor at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

What do you get when you get three former CTCL admissions counselors together discussing a magical candy committee? An extended J Term episode, that's what.

We are thrilled to bring you the extended cut of our interview from last summer with Sawyer Earwood, Independent Educational Consultant and owner of Virtual College Consulting in Every Town, USA.

More important topics than the candy committee: the value of phone calls, the impact of a counselor, and the power of relational recruiting.

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team.

Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissions offices. For more information, reach out to us at adlunchcast@gmail.com.

This week, we are discussing summer melt. What should admissions counselors be doing and thinking about at this stage in order to maximize enrollment results?

Our influencer guest is Jennifer Dryfoos, former school counselor at Santa Fe Preparatory School for over 25 years in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Our practitioner guest is Dr. Patty Peek, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Fordham University in New York, New York.

Join us for your most productive lunch meeting all week, as we discuss how admissions counselors can help at this stage in the cycle.

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team.

Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissions offices. For more information, reach out to us at adlunchcast@gmail.com.

This week, we are discussing yield efforts. What should admissions counselors be doing and thinking about at this stage in order to maximize enrollment results?

Our influencer guest is Sawyer Earwood, Independent Educational Consultant and owner of Virtual College Consulting in Every Town, USA.

Our practitioner guest is Reuben Burnley, Director of Undergraduate Pathways at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.

Join us for your most productive lunch meeting all week, as we discuss how admissions counselors can help at this stage in the cycle.

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team.

Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissions offices. For more information, reach out to us at adlunchcast@gmail.com.

This week, to we are discussing financial aid. What should admissions counselors be doing and thinking about at this stage in order to maximize enrollment results?

Our influencer guest is Sara English, Post-Secondary Counselor at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Our practitioner guest is Ellen Johnson, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Join us for your most productive lunch meeting all week, as we discuss how admissions counselors can help at this stage in the cycle.

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team.

Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissions offices. For more information, reach out to us at adlunchcast@gmail.com.

This week, we are discussing application generation. What should admissions counselors be doing and thinking about at this stage in order to maximize enrollment results?

Our influencer guest is Christine Grover, Director of College Counseling at Trinity Prep in Winter Park, Florida.

Our practitioner guest is Evan Wilson, Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois.

Join us for your most productive lunch meeting all week, as we discuss how admissions counselors can help at this stage in the cycle.

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team.

Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissions offices. For more information, reach out to us at adlunchcast@gmail.com.

This week, to we are discussing travel tips. What should admissions counselors be doing and thinking about at this stage in order to maximize enrollment results?

Our influencer guest is Melissa Lustic, Director of College Counseling at The Meadows School in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Our practitioner guest is Max Gold, Regional Admission Counselor based in Florida for Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey.

Join us for your most productive lunch meeting all week, as we discuss how admissions counselors can help at this stage in the cycle.

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team.

Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissions offices. For more information, reach out to us at adlunchcast@gmail.com.

This week, we are discussing counselor engagement. What should admissions counselors be doing and thinking about at this stage in order to maximize enrollment results?

Our influencer guest is Meg Farley, Director of College Counseling at Cape Cod Academy in Osterville, Massachusetts.

Our practitioner guest is Anthony Perez, Assistant Director of Admissions, Multi-cultural Outreach and Recruitment, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Join us for your most productive lunch meeting all week, as we discuss how admissions counselors can help at this stage in the cycle.

Over the summer, we've worked with two guests from season five to conduct research related to staff morale and burnout among college admissions professionals.

Some of the results were presented at the NACAC conference. A deeper analysis was published in a 12-page paper, available online.

In this episode, each of us raises something interesting or noteworthy from the research, giving us an opportunity to discuss these issues with fewer constraints on time and format than either the paper or the conference.

Joining Teege and Nathan for this episode are Seinquis Leinen, Director of Admissions at North Dakota State University, and Jessica Sant, Chief Engagement Officer at The Lovett School in Georgia.

We hope you enjoy this bonus episode and are doing all you can to fight burnout for yourself and your team.

In addition to this discussion, we have edited a 12-page paper further discussing the results, available for review here.

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team.

Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissions offices. For more information, reach out to us at adlunchcast@gmail.com.

This week, we are discussing territory management. What should admissions counselors be doing and thinking about at this stage in order to maximize enrollment results?

Our influencer guest is Dr. Talia Pennington-Dorcey, Director of College Counseling at Incarnate Word Academy in Houston, Texas.

Our practitioner guest is Derek Faase, Director of Admissions at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

Join us for your most productive lunch meeting all week, as we discuss how admissions counselors can help at this stage in the cycle.

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team.

Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissions offices. For more information, reach out to us at adlunchcast@gmail.com.

This week, we are discussing inquiry generation ... specifically, student search. What should admissions counselors be doing and thinking about at this stage in order to maximize enrollment results?

Our influencer guest is Chuck Erickson, Independent Educational Consultant with College Connectors, based in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Our practitioner guest is Mary Beth Petrie, Vice President for Enrollment Management at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.

Join us for your most productive lunch meeting all week, as we discuss how admissions counselors can help at this stage in the cycle.

We are (about to be) back for another season!  As always, we have sixteen different guests, each bringing their own perspective and insights to issues being faced by admissions directors everywhere.

Plus, a bonus episode, discussing some research we conducted with two guests from last season.

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team.

Episodes will drop every Tuesday morning in September and October!

In a professional highlight for your humble hosts, we were fortunate enough to be invited to serve as keynote speakers for the Ohio ACAC conference in March. We present you the unedited audio recording from inside the room, where we discussed the Shattering The Status Quo concept with three Ohio professionals.

Alicia Watts, College Counselor at St. Edward High School

Emily Haggerty, Director of Admissions, Ursuline College

Angela Eberhardt, Assistant Director of College Advising, I Know I Can

We hope you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as we enjoyed being in Toledo!

Every season, a few interviews need just a bit more space than we can fit into our regular format. When the full interview can't fit into one hour, we catch up in between seasons to give an unedited conversation.

Originally released as part of "The Future of Test Scores", we had so much more to share from our conversation with Perry Robinson, Happily Retired School Counselor, and Vice President for Enrollment, and Past President of Wisconsin ACAC, who talks about the history of the test-optional movement, weights test-optional and test-blind policies, and discusses how families are reacting to these changes.