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College admissions, from the student side.
Admissions Uncovered is a college admissions show framed "for the students, by the students." Its strongest lane is practical application talk: profile reviews, essay angles, online admissions forums, and conversations around Columbia University.
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Admissions Uncovered sits close to the student experience of college admissions. Its own framing calls it a college admissions podcast "for the students, by the students," and the excerpts bear that out. The show is comfortable with the messy, familiar terrain of online application culture: r slash applying to college, r slash chance me, College Confidential, resumes posted for strangers, and anxious questions about what an admissions reader might see. It gives practical attention to profiles. It also asks whether the internet’s verdict is useful in the first place. In the episode with Mark, known as scholar grade on Reddit, the discussion moves through cases involving academics, extracurriculars, essays, journalism, art, nonprofits, test scores, and the difference between a pile of achievements and a coherent application story. The tone is conversational rather than polished into institutional advice. That matters. Admissions Uncovered often sounds like people close to the process trying to make it legible for other students, not like a college brochure or a consultant’s sales page. Columbia University also appears as a meaningful reference point. Michael Gow introduces a conversation with Steve Schwartz, a college admissions counselor over at The College Admissions Toolbox and an alumni of Columbia College, around experiences connected to Columbia and how they differed. The show is not only application tactics. "George Floyd" is explicitly introduced as something different, with the speaker pausing the planned admissions topic to address the killing of George Floyd, police violence, anger, protest, and the need for real conversations and action. That episode gives the show a wider moral register without turning the whole premise away from college admissions. Its center remains applications, students, and the systems around them. Its texture comes from a mix of peer language, named online communities, admissions examples, and occasional departures into public events that the speaker considers too important to ignore.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants college application advice in plain student language, especially around profiles, essays, online admissions forums, and school-specific conversations. It also fits someone open to admissions talk that occasionally widens into public issues.
What sets it apart: Admissions Uncovered stands apart by putting student-facing admissions culture itself on the table: chance-me posts, Reddit identities, case reviews, and the uneasy habit of asking strangers to judge a future. It feels closer to a candid application-room conversation than a packaged admissions seminar.
A Columbia University undergrad and his old teacher talk about college admissions: how students can craft the best college application, how teachers and administrators can help them, and how colleges can improve the system.
Mike and Sully's career choices get the kind of scrutiny you wish your college list had.
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Admissions Uncovered steps away from college admissions to address George Floyd, police brutality, protest, and action beyond posting.
Admissions Uncovered pauses its usual college-admissions focus to respond to George Floyd's killing, police brutality, and the protests surrounding it.
Calm guidance for the college search.
Dominion High School, in student voices.
Tactical coaching for competitive college admissions.
Georgia Tech admission, made clearer.
Student life, recorded from inside King's.
Admissions talk and campus road trips from two counselors.
Admissions Uncovered pivots from college admissions to George Floyd after the killing in Minneapolis becomes impossible to ignore.
Admissions Uncovered reviews six Reddit ChanceMe profiles with Michael, Sean, and verified counselor Mark of Better College Apps.
Mike Wazowski cannot become a scarer, but he discovers he can coach Sully into becoming one.
Host Michael Gow interviews Columbia alumnus Steve Schwartz about his college experiences and offers admissions advice, with a sponsor segment for a college social network.