If you pay attention to the world of college admissions, then you not only know this guy, chances are he’s helped you form your understanding of what goes on in said world. Eric Hoover has been writing about admissions for about as long as current college freshmen have been alive. What has changed over that period of time? What are the constants? If I give him enough beers, will he tell me who the next big names are that will be going “test optional”???
Eric and I spend nearly 2 hours talking about all manner of admissions things over a few brewskis. We talk about how he came to this profession and this admissions beat. In the second half, we talk about his trip to Nepal to learn more about the students whose offers of admission were revoked at UT Tyler and the ensuing trip he made to Nepal to learn more about the environment they were coming from. We also discuss the matter of “financial aid verification” which is an under-reported phenomenon affecting poor families who require financial aid to go to college and the additional difficulties our government puts them through.
Here’s the collection of stories Eric did about Nepali students trying to get to college in the US.
Link to “The Verification Trap” about the pitfalls of applying for financial aid while poor in this country.
Link to the article that won Eric the Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award called “The Arc of Her Survival.”
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