"The Game" podcast
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Anonymous
Where do you find the transcripts? |
Anonymous
Download it to Apple Podcasts. It will pop up there on the info about the episode. |
Anonymous
| Ok, this new episode was good for the major selection, resume building, resume support, and positioning angle. Thought that part was good. |
Anonymous
| he’s a dumb person’s idea of a smart person. |
Anonymous
+1 I wonder if he (or a colleague) are posting in this thread. |
Anonymous
I'm the one who posted today (a mom) who found it helpful. Sorry....jeez. If you aren't a professional, do you have other detailed podcasts you'd recommend? I also like YCBK and the Dartmouth one, which I found out about here. This one seems more formulaic, I think, which could be good or bad, depending on how you view college admissions. For me, more info and more detail is always better. |
Anonymous
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if you can get past the regional accent, the College Admission Podcast (CAP) has amazing guests. the guy ask softballs all day long, but if your kid is applying to x, y, and z schools, I'd listen to the CAP podcast with x, y, and z AOs.
I like some of the Yale podcast too. Seems more straight info than the Dartmouth guy (Who makes himself the center of every story?) |
Anonymous
| The Yale one is great. The AOs on it seem thoughtful, intelligent, and eager to demystify a lot of the process. |
Anonymous
I haven’t really learned much detail though with Yale. It’s fine for background. Others are much more detailed. |
Anonymous
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Finally listening to the new episode.
His 2nd part is a point that everyone here makes a lot:a top school is not about the content. It’s all the same content/info (Harvard’s organic chemistry class is not in innately better than someone else’s organic chemistry class). It’s about the peer group; the mentors; the research pops; the networking. The content is commoditized. The biggest difference at an Ivy is the class is taught faster, there’s an assumption of a higher prerequisite knowledge and math competence, and they’ll get further into topics, more advanced topics. He also talks about “over-indexing on course rigor” and the detrimental effects of that (overindexing happens if the kid has ANY Bs.) From The Game: A Guide to Elite College Admissions: Is Legacy A Backdoor To The Ivy League?, May 21, 2025 |
Anonymous
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He’s brutal - OUCH!!!!
“And I generally categorize a lot of the students, and they will usually conform to one of these archetypes, is the intellectual or the doer. But the doer traits are really important. I think they're really important for life. Life is not a multiple-choice test. You need to know how to interface with people, how to lead people. You need to be gritty. You need to network, send reachouts. You need to know how to do a Zoom interview with people. You need to present. You need to know how to be polished and articulate. Like, you can't just be book smart for your whole life. And so a kid who just is all metrics, and a lot of these kids do, there are a lot of kids because they are the intellectual kid. They're not the doer.” |
Anonymous
| Great new episode on application differentiation |
Anonymous
Did you just finish recording it? |
Anonymous
He certainly likes to hear himself talk! |
Anonymous
No I posted it here. Sheesh. I stopped giving summaries a while ago because people accused me of being the weird dude with a vocal fry. I thought it was good. But you do you - so done with your continuous snark. |