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Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission Interviews

Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission Interviews

YCBK 669: If My Student Checks the Box For Aid, Does It Decrease Their Admissions Chances

Aug 27, 2026 · 1h 0m

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In this episode you will hear: (11:38) Mark and Christina answer a question from a listener about how, "checking the box" impacts admissions at a "Need-Aware" college (34:06) Mark interviews Dr. Rick Barth, Director of Undergraduate Admissions Part 3 of 5 Preview of Part 3 of 5 µ Rick talks about how Clemson ranks students, even when they do not provide a class rank, and he talks about the quality controls they put in place to make sure they are as accurate as possible µ Rick talk about the way in which Clemson profiles how students have done from different high schools at Clemson and how this factors into how they read an admission file µ Rick talks about how is rigor assessed µ Rick talks…