The annual application process for NYC high schools has kicked off and parents are scrambling to understand the process. Deb, Yiatin, and Josh sit down this week with a few parents who have made transformational differences in helping thousands of parents in navigating a complex process with their contributions.
The first guest, Amélie Marian, has received numerous awards for her research and is professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University is recognized for cracking the enigmatic “random access number” algorithm also commonly known as the lottery number assigned to every student which she has written about in her articles on Medium, Algorithms in the Wild https://medium.com/algorithms-in-the-wild
Also in this episode, Leeorah Hartman and Chantelle Bradford, two of the five co-founders (including Stella Xu, Leslie Rubin, and Jessie Bouchot) from the Facebook group Applying to High School in NYC https://www.facebook.com/groups/480785616356239 discuss how they help other parents through the process and the challenges they face as they manage a group of almost 20K members.
Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/parents-making-a-difference/id1867030244?i=1000798640301