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🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Listener supported, WNYC Studios. |
0:07.2 | We're going to have the call-in that I mentioned before the news for families making a big choice this |
0:22.9 | week. And the question is, has the political climate in the country or on any particular campus |
0:29.3 | affected the decision for you or your family members or any other person you know about which |
0:36.1 | schools offer to accept. |
0:37.5 | 212-433 WNYC. |
0:41.0 | Our phones are open. |
0:42.3 | 212-433-9692. |
0:46.6 | This Thursday, May 1st, that's the official decision deadline day for students heading |
0:52.5 | off to college for the first time in the fall, |
0:54.8 | or even staying home and going to college, but given the heightened political tensions |
0:59.0 | surrounding our country's universities all this year, perhaps this decision is more complicated |
1:04.7 | than in previous years. So listeners help us report this story. Has choosing a college |
1:10.5 | become not only about, say, campus amenities |
1:14.4 | and what majors they offer, but also about the politics of higher education, so front and center |
1:21.7 | in the Trump administration, and also front and center, you know, in the Gaza war period over the last year and a half. |
1:29.7 | So 212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9692. |
1:38.2 | Has the political climate in the country or on any particular campus affected the decision for you or your family members or anyone |
1:46.5 | else you know about which schools offer to accept. |
1:49.7 | Maybe it even affected which schools you applied to or didn't even apply to. |
1:53.6 | You can tell us that part of a story too. |
1:56.0 | 212-433 WNYC, 212, 433, 9692. |
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