Alvaro de Vicente on Choosing a College—Or Not

Episode • May 15 • 35m

As more families scrutinize their post-high school options for virtue and value, the field has perhaps never been wider. Choosing a path carefully, with the right balance of priorities, should be the goal for every high school graduate.

Before serving as our headmaster, Mr. Alvaro de Vicente was the Heights college counselor. Over the last few decades, he’s witnessed an exciting shift in the way students and their parents can evaluate, prioritize, and choose a path after graduation that serves the whole person well. And while colleges are responding more and more to these good demands, Mr. de Vicente also explores how high schools and employers could keep pace with the changes.

Chapters:

2:32 Am I on the education treadmill?

4:16 Purposes of college: personal growth, financial growth

8:32 Keeping the two purposes in proper proportion

12:20 The wider field of alternatives

15:42 How high schools must respond

19:35 Peer groups on the alternative path

24:22 If virtue and value aren’t in balance

27:33 The future graduate’s options

29:54 The future of hiring

Also on the Forum:

A Short Guide to the Purposeful College Decision by Alvaro de Vicente 4/25