Getting In Episode 6C: Tips for Nontraditional Students

The podcast answers questions about vocational schools, community college transfer students, and colleges that don’t give grades.

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Host Julie Lythcott-Haims and Getting In expert Parke Muth answer more listener questions. Parke is a private college counselor and a former admission officer at the University of Virginia.

This week’s questions include one from a dad who wonders how attending a vocational high school might affect college admission. A mom whose daughter is interested in the New College of Florida—a school that does not give grades—wonders how the post-college working world views graduates who don’t have traditional GPAs. And a community college professor in Idaho asks for strategies to help her nontraditional students transfer to four-year schools.

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