Every year without fail, it happens: senior students around the world chase down guidance counsellors, do their best to cram an impactful experience into a 500 word personal statement, and call up teachers for reference letters. And then there's the process of interviewing. 

This episode is a deep dive with Kana Shishikura, who works in the field of holistic admissions. Kana unpacks a few burning questions that I, as a guidance counsellor, have: 

• What is a holistic admissions process? 
• How does it help to even the playing field for college applicants? 
• Will my students still be emailing me at all hours of the night to get a recommendation letter for an application that's due the next day?

And a special congratulations to IS Ruhr's IB Class of 2022 - I'm very proud of all of you!