Interview with a Stanford Admission Officer

In this episode of Sh*t Your Teenager Won’t Tell You, hosts Cathy and Meredith speak with Yamilet Medina López, Assistant Dean of Admission for Diversity Outreach and External Relations, about the admission process. Yamilet discusses how she helps parents understand the process and how parents can best support their students. She also shares what makes a strong application.

TIMESTAMPS

• [00:01] Intro

• [01:00] Meet Yamilet

• [02:09] What brought her to work in college admission

• [06:23] How she helps parents understand the admission process

• [11:23] What characterizes a strong application

• [17:06] Responding to inequities in the admission process

• [21:33] Ways parents can best support students through process

• [26:36] College is not for everyone

• [35:34] This is a human process

• [46:55] Host’s final thoughts

• [54:21] Outro

LINKS

• Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

• U.S. News Best Colleges

• Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History: Project Dillard

• Herrera Educational Consulting

• Village Coaches

• Sh*t Your Teenager Won’t Tell You website