{"podcast":{"title":"Admissions Beat","slug":"admissions-beat-4462287","podcast_index_feed_id":4462287,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/Xa7viccF","website_url":"https://admissions-beat.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/0439f9d6-ef41-4970-954e-2e52feec7fe4/f346788d-53d7-44e8-930d-559ce9f7e836/3000x3000/s8-admissionsbeat-logo-1500x1500p.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Dartmouth Admissions","episode_count":136,"summary":"On the Admissions Beat, veteran dean of admissions Lee Coffin from Dartmouth College and a range of guests provide high school students and parents, as well as their counselors and other mentors, with \"news you can use\" at each step on the pathway to college. With a welcoming, reassuring perspective and an approach intended to build confidence in prospective applicants, Dean Coffin offers credible information, insights, and guidance—from the earliest days of the college search, to applications, decision-making, and arrival on campus. He does so by drawing on nearly 30 years of experience as an admissions leader at some of the nation's most prestigious institutions.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/admissions-beat-4462287"},"episode":{"title":"Admissions Quiz Bowl","slug":"admissions-quiz-bowl","published_at":"2025-11-04T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/admissions-beat-4462287/admissions-quiz-bowl","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/admissions-beat-4462287","url":"https://admissions-beat.simplecast.com/episodes/admissions-quiz-bowl-zROLbVVw","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/b86abed6-d3fe-4642-bea6-db292e207f10/episodes/03401b7a-2db1-4362-a341-e3e46bc60005/audio/45ee0ca1-0f61-4aae-9c17-d329ae3bd74a/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=Xa7viccF","summary":"Like most professions, college admissions has its own internal language, and that distinctive style of communicating is especially true as an application is read and summarized. In a special \"quiz bowl\" episode that fuses NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me with Jeopardy!, four veteran college counselors—all former admission officers who've read thousands of applications themselves—match wits to decode and decipher the unique lingo and shorthand that admissions officers use as they read an application. For applicants, AB Quiz Bowl offers an inside peek at the many things an admission officer notices, as well as some tips about how to emphasize the points you most want to highlight in your own application.","meta_description":"Like most professions, college admissions has its own internal language, and that distinctive style of communicating is especially true as an application…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3659,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/admissions-beat-4462287/episodes/admissions-quiz-bowl/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/admissions-beat-4462287/admissions-quiz-bowl.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}