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Back to EpisodesFINDING YOUR COLLEGE FIT
Description
Looking for the right school looks more and more these days like online dating, particularly in all the superficial and short-sighted ways these matches are made. Amy and Mike invited ed-tech entrepreneurs Eric Menna and Sam Bernstein to share tough love insights on finding your college fit.
What are five things you will learn in this episode?
- How does personalized college guidance impact student success?
- How can counselors and students assess "fit"
- Is there such a thing as a college "soulmate"?
- Why are rankings flawed?
- Should students just work off of lists of best colleges?
MEET OUR GUESTS
Eric Menna and Sam Bernstein are the two co-founders of Loper, reconnecting in August of 2021 to found the company after both graduating together from Georgetown University in 2018. Eric comes from a family of educators and most recently spent 3 years working at Bain & Company as a management consultant, where he fueled his passion for education through working on a pro-bono case with a St. Louis charter school and externing at a Chicago non-profit offering free after-school music programming. Sam most recently spent 3 years working at Maverick Capital, a NYC-based equity hedge fund, where his time volunteering for Maverick's charitable foundation and his experiences seeing the COVID-19 pandemic highlight educational inequity both motivated him to quit his job and empower students through Loper.
Find Sam at sam@getloper.com and Eric at eric@getloper.com.
LINKS
Loper (mobile app download link)
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page.
ABOUT YOUR HOSTS
Mike Bergin is