Getting In: A College Coach Conversation
Aug 27, 2026 · 56 min · 12 segments
Host Sally Ganga is joined by College Coach counselors Joy Biscornet and Robin Khadduri, along with finance expert Aimee Yorsaner, for a discussion of The Anxious Generation by social psychologist…
So I've given a long preface, but let's start, like, what is this book? Does one of you wanna raise your hands to kind of define it? I'm gonna call on, uh, Robyn.
I'm happy to jump in as long as Joy and Amy will round out, uh, my explanation.
Um, so you, you did a good job, Sally, I think, of giving the high level elevator pitch for it.
Um, I think Jonathan Haidt does a really nice job of meticulously breaking down the data, and as you pointed out, there are people who disagree.
Um, I don't think that we here at College Coach wanted to get into the nitty-gritty of that.
It was more the takeaway of we're seeing a rise in anxiety and depression in the students that we work with in that age range, and we're mindful of it and empathetic to those students, and we always talk about meeting students and families where they're at.
And so in this context, we wanna come to the table to share advice knowing that maybe students are feeling anxious, um-
And so with that lens, sort of have this whole conversation, and then we can kind of go from there.
We do have some takeaways after reading the book as a group of professionals in this space that we think can be helpful for the listeners.
I, I agree, and I think part of the reason why we were interested in, in reading the book is to what Robyn said, is that we are dealing with students in an, in an age gen- well, mostly Gen Z is what the book focuses on, that have grown up with social media in a way that most of the counselors at College Coach have not.
Um, so although we do all use social media, um, we wanted to get a sense of perhaps how, how much it's being used by students and in what ways it's being used by students in order to be able to provide advice and guidance to them, um, that doesn't, um, make them feel badly about using social media, but-
So I've given a long preface, but let's start, like, what is this book? Does one of you wanna raise your hands to kind of define it? I'm gonna call on, uh, Robyn.
I'm happy to jump in as long as Joy and Amy will round out, uh, my explanation.
Um, so you, you did a good job, Sally, I think, of giving the high level elevator pitch for it.
Um, I think Jonathan Haidt does a really nice job of meticulously breaking down the data, and as you pointed out, there are people who disagree.
Um, I don't think that we here at College Coach wanted to get into the nitty-gritty of that.
It was more the takeaway of we're seeing a rise in anxiety and depression in the students that we work with in that age range, and we're mindful of it and empathetic to those students, and we always talk about meeting students and families where they're at.
And so in this context, we wanna come to the table to share advice knowing that maybe students are feeling anxious, um-
And so with that lens, sort of have this whole conversation, and then we can kind of go from there.
We do have some takeaways after reading the book as a group of professionals in this space that we think can be helpful for the listeners.
I, I agree, and I think part of the reason why we were interested in, in reading the book is to what Robyn said, is that we are dealing with students in an, in an age gen- well, mostly Gen Z is what the book focuses on, that have grown up with social media in a way that most of the counselors at College Coach have not.
Um, so although we do all use social media, um, we wanted to get a sense of perhaps how, how much it's being used by students and in what ways it's being used by students in order to be able to provide advice and guidance to them, um, that doesn't, um, make them feel badly about using social media, but-
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