The Crush

By Davin Sweeney

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Episodes: 47

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As a college admissions counselor, I think “The Crush” sums up the way most people feel about the college admissions process and the college experience itself. High school students fall into a deep infatuation with a potential future alma mater, maybe even many, and work themselves into ulcerous, sleepless fits trying to find a way to get noticed and give them a chance. And then there’s the other kind of crush....the physical weight of it all. The pressure of expectations for yourself, your parents, your peers, the weight of the finances you might be asked to conjure up in order to appease your hungry crush, and the crush of information in the form of mailings to your house, stories in the media, tweets, op-eds, rumors, gossip, and outright bull***. This podcast looks to explore these issues and more by talking to fascinating people who know more about it all than I do.

Episode Date
Episode 44: Ron Lieber on the Price of College
May 03, 2021
Episode 43: Prof. Marlene Daut on “Becoming Full Professor While Black”
Jul 13, 2020
Welcome to the Crush!
Jul 05, 2020
Episode 42: Celeste Suris Rosselli and DJ Meehan on College Access in Puerto Rico
May 04, 2020
Episode 41: Mindy Rose and Mark Moody of Shanghai American School
Mar 12, 2020
Episode 40! Oregon State University’s Jon Boeckenstedt
Jan 22, 2020
Episode 39: Dr. Philip Walsh on the Value of Philosophy
Jan 16, 2020
Episode 38: Sam Schreiber and I Review “Admission”
Sep 25, 2019
Episode 37: Dr. Andrew Moe on College Access for Rural Students
Sep 10, 2019
Episode 36: Marie Bigham of ACCEPT
Aug 13, 2019
Episode 35: Dr. Susan Matt on the History of Homesickness in America
Jul 01, 2019
Episode 34: Eric Hoover of the Chronicle of Higher Education
May 22, 2019
Episode 33: Professor Marybeth Gasman
Apr 19, 2019
Episode 32 ***🚨EMERGENCY AUNT BECKY SCANDAL PODCAST With Eric Hoover🚨***
Mar 15, 2019
Episode 31 – Doug Webber 2: The Return of Doug Webber!
Feb 10, 2019
Episode 30! Josh Hunt on “The University of Nike”
Jan 23, 2019
Episode 29: Emmi Harward of ACCIS
Jan 12, 2019
Episode 28: Annie Reznik on the Coalition Application
Nov 07, 2018
Episode 27: Eric Waldo of Reach Higher
Oct 07, 2018
Episode 26: Bart Grachan on Community Colleges
Jul 16, 2018
Episode 25: Alexander Clark, CEO and Founder of Technolutions/Slate
Jun 22, 2018
Episode 24: Stanley Nelson on HBCUs and His New Film “Tell Them We Are Rising”
Feb 14, 2018
Episode 23: Prof. Nathan Grawe on the Changing Demographics of America’s College Bound
Feb 12, 2018
Episode 22: Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez on the University of Puerto Rico
Jan 22, 2018
Episode 21: Scott Looney on the Mastery Transcript
Nov 29, 2017
Episode 20: Akil Bello Helps me Register for the SAT
Sep 13, 2017
Episode 19: Dr. Andrew Ho on the Reach of MOOCs
Aug 25, 2017
Episode 18: Prof. Doug Webber on NY’s “Excelsior” Scholarship
Apr 30, 2017
Episode 17: Dr. Michael Bastedo on the Bias of Admissions Counselors
Feb 02, 2017
Episode 16.2: Lew Frederick on the Question “Is Donald Trump Racist?”
Nov 01, 2016
Episode 16: Rep. Lew Frederick on Race, Politics, and Education
Nov 01, 2016
Episode 15: Dr. Christina Warinner on 10,000 Year Old Teeth, Science Research, and Women in Academia
Oct 02, 2016
Episode 14: Maria Maisto on the Struggle of Adjunct Faculty
Aug 21, 2016
Episode 13: Julie Lythcott-Haims on Parenting the College-Bound
Aug 04, 2016
Episode 12: Lloyd Thacker and Rick Weissbourd on “Turning the Tide”
Jul 22, 2016
Episode 11: Denise Pope on The Pressure to Succeed in High School
Jun 21, 2016
Episode 10.1: Jon Burdick on Money and College
May 25, 2016
Episode 10.2: Jon Burdick on Money and College
May 25, 2016
Episode 09: Genevieve Bell, Intel’s Anthropologist
May 17, 2016
Episode 08: Stephanie Shyu, Co-Founder of AdmitSee
May 11, 2016
Episode 07: Ben Casselman, Chief Economics Writer at fivethirtyeight.com
Apr 12, 2016
Episode 06: Nader Tehrani on the Look and Feel of College Campuses
Apr 05, 2016
Episode 05: Dr. Siva Kumari, Director General of the IBO
Mar 29, 2016
Episode 04: Adam Ingersoll on Standardized Tests
Mar 10, 2016
Episode 03: Bob DeMars, Director of “The Business of Amateurs”
Mar 01, 2016
Episode 02: Emily Harris, Jerusalem Correspondent for NPR
Feb 17, 2016
Episode 01: What’s the Point of College? With Bill Deresiewicz
Jan 06, 2015