Admittedly: College Admissions with Thomas Caleel
Hosted by Thomas Caleel · Thomas Caleel
4.3from 39 ratings
- 150
- Episodes
- 74
- Transcribed
- 39
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 63K
- YouTube views
About Admittedly: College Admissions with Thomas Caleel
Does thinking about applying to college, grad school, or prep school make your head spin? The Admittedly Podcast is for both parents and students preparing for or navigating school admissions. We aim to demystify the admissions process and share with you what you really need to know to succeed. Our host, Thomas Caleel, former director of MBA admissions and financial aid for the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, is here to help. He is a lifelong entrepreneur and CEO of a global admissions consulting agency where he works with families worldwide to help them achieve their educational goals. New episodes go live every Tuesday and Thursday. Learn from our guest speakers, live coaching sessions, and weekly solo episodes. Have admissions questions you'd like answered on the show? Apply to be coached by Thomas himself on one of our upcoming recordings. In this podcast, we don't promise easy answers or quick fixes. But with decades of experience under his belt, Thomas will address the practical aspects of applying to school and how to think like an admissions officer to improve your college or prep school application.
- Publisher
- Thomas Caleel
- Category
- education · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Feb 2023
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
74 of 150 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
S5E27: Silicon Valley Wants You to Rethink Your Education | Opportunities, Tradeoffs & the Risks of Betting on Tech
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
S5E26: What 22 Years of Tutoring Teaches You About Students: Motivation, Mastery, and Finding Your Voice (With Advantage Testing's Sarah Bernbach)
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
S5E23: How to Choose Your High School Classes for College Admissions | AP, IB, A-Levels & More
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S5E27: Silicon Valley Wants You to Rethink Your Education | Opportunities, Tradeoffs & the Risks of Betting on Tech
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Clearly a strategic multidimensional thinker, incredibly smart human being. Peter Thiel, Stanford BA in philosophy and a Stanford JD. Stephen Cohen, Stanford BS and comp sci. Joe Lonsdale, Stanford BS, comp sci. Fifth co-founder, Nathan Gettings, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, bachelor's in mathematics. And so I think it's really interesting when people who are super highly educated have deep educational privilege tell you you don't need an education. And the reason is that educational privilege. Education at a good university gives you a network and it gives you leverage. And it's so critical to remember this as you're moving out into the world. […]
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