College Is Broken: Podcast Edition

Teege Mettille

College admissions is broken, and Teege Mettille helped break it. After twenty years inside colleges, he wrote the book on what went wrong. Sundays: the audiobook, chapter by chapter. Thursdays: conversations with the counselors, deans, students, and parents who lived it. September through December.

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    Pessimism/Optimism with Nathan Ament

    College Is Broken: Print Edition (on Amazon): Nathan Ament is my Lunchcast co-host, VP for enrollment at Knox College, and the guy who took Loyola New Orleans test-blind before the rest of the South caught up. He's also been hearing these arguments since before they were arguments. Part Lunchcast, part launch of College Is Broken: Podcast Edition. Nathan prosecutes the book. His case: the tactics I criticize are the tactics that work, and a VP who walks away from what works misses their number. My answer is a question. Works for who? We get into the $750 scholarship that landed as an insult, the gap between what gets said in a cabinet meeting and what everyone in the admissions office knows is happening, Whitworth cutting its sticker price in half, and whether "there are no villains in this book" is optimism or a dodge. Nathan doesn't concede. He gets as far as honest. Three key takeaways: Why "it works" is an incomplete answerThe case that the book is pessimistic, argued by someone who's in itWhat the pandemic proved about how fast institutions can actually moveLinks: Nathan Ament on LinkedInJennifer Jessie (Jenn the Tutor), quoted in the book and recommended on airThe Admissions Directors LunchcastWhitworth's price reset

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College admissions is broken, and Teege Mettille helped break it. After twenty years inside colleges, he wrote the book on what went wrong. Sundays: the audiobook, chapter by chapter. Thursdays: conversations with the counselors, deans, students, and parents who lived it. September through December.

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