The College Arms Race: Disarming Applications

In this final episode— What are some ways we can reduce college admissions stress? Knowing much of the strain of the process does not accurately reflect reality, we can devise some small-scale, simple solutions that directly change our outlook and decrease stress.  This will ensure a healthier relationship with college admissions while simultaneously transforming us into more compassionate people.  This episode is a win-win: listeners can learn how to become better people in general as they gather tips for easier college admission!

In this episode— How does the college admissions process resemble an arms race, and how can that inform our solutions? In comparing our current college admissions process to arms races throughout history, we will better understand how fallacious perceptions have spiraled an application process into a needlessly stressful race. This breakdown will help direct us to the best course of action for some solutions.

In this episode— What commonly-held beliefs about the difficulty of the college admissions process are actually false? We debunk many misguided beliefs regarding college admissions to alleviate their stressful influence in our lives.

In this episode— In what ways do misinformed college admission perceptions permeate our daily lives? By analyzing our daily interactions, we pinpoint the ways in which these perceptions have rooted themselves in our lives often unnoticed. When left undetected, these perceptions build up, escalate, and impact our harmful actions.

In this first episode— How did these toxic perceptions come to fruition? An in-depth analysis of a generational shift in recent decades guides our exploration of the origin of faulty college admission perceptions.