Mattie

Linda, a senior in high school started the ball rolling that led to this podcast with her Open Call for Bloggers:

I’ve been thinking lately about how awesome it would be to have a group of high school students (seniors preferred, juniors okay as well) blog about the college admissions process and then possibly continue their blog through their freshman year of college….

SO. Here’s my proposition: If you know of any high school seniors that would be interested in this idea or you’re a fellow high school senior yourself–feel free to contact me through Blogger or via e-mail @ [email protected]

We put Linda in touch with Lindsea, who blogs at Love & Logic and at Students 2.0, because she is also a senior at Panahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. And we invited Linda and Lindsea onto Teachers Teaching Teachers to tell us about their journies into the college admissions process.
We also invited two seniors who have been working with Chris Sloan at Judge Memorial Catholic High School:

• Alli, who blogs at Fibers
• Katie, whose post, "YES WE CAN: my experience in Grant Park on election day," drew a lot of interest on Youth Voices in November.

We were also joined by a recent graduate from Mt. Holyoke College, Mattie… and toward the end Jack Yu let us know about the work he has been doing to help high school students learn SAT vocabulary words on Brainyflix.
Enjoy this free-wheeling conversation with these young bloggers. Imagine with them what the college application process would look like if admissions officers were available on Twitter, and they could take the time to really follow these students’ online lives. These young women would love for a college to Google them!

Click Read more to see a transcript of a chat that was happening during the webcast.