Episode 177: Why the College's Cost Matters
Well, we are just about done. We are on Step 14, the final step in researching colleges on your son or daughter's LLCO (that is, one last ti...
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USACollegeChat is a weekly podcast for parents and high school students about the world of college options hosted by Regina Paul and Marie Segares. USACollegeChat is a program of Policy Stud...
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Episode 176: Why the College's Admissions Practices Matter--Obviously
Well, this is where it gets serious. Researching Step 13 will give you and your son or daughter an idea about how likely it is that he or sh...
Episode 175: Why the College's Activities and Sports Matter
Well, listeners, the end is in sight. Today is Step 12 out of the 14 steps we want your son or daughter to take this summer to make his or h...
Episode 174: Why the College's Security Measures Matter
Today is Step 11 out of the 14 steps we want your son or daughter to take this summer to make his or her search for colleges more effective....
Episode 173: Why the College's Housing Matters
Well, we are up to Step 10 out of the 14 steps of your kid's summer homework . So far, so good. Keep checking our workbook How To Explore Yo...
Episode 172: Why the College's Schedule Matters
Today's episode is about Step 9 of your kid's summer homework . All 14 steps are being explained in our series of episodes this summer and h...
Episode 171: Why the College's Academics Matter--Obviously
Today's episode is about Step 8 of your kid's summer homework . That's 8 out of 14 steps, all of which are explained in our series of episod...
Episode 170: Why the College's Class Size Matters
Well, we are up to Step 7 of your kid's summer homework , and we are officially halfway there. All 14 steps (7 down, 7 more to go) are expla...
Episode 169: Why the College's Enrollment Matters
Today we are going to talk about Step 6 of your kid's summer homework, as explained in our episodes throughout the summer and also more elab...
Episode 168: Why the College's Community Location Matters
Today we are going to talk about Step 5 of your kid's summer homework. If you have forgotten, this summer homework is based on our workbook...
Episode 167: Why the College's History and Mission Matter
Today we are going to talk about the Step 4 of your kid's summer homework. Regular listeners know that this summer homework is based on our...
Episode 166: Getting and Organizing College Information
Today we are going to talk about Steps 2 and 3 of your kid's summer homework. If you haven't gotten our workbook for your son or daughter, H...
Episode 165: Your Kid's Long List of College Options
Today we are going to talk about the first step of your kid's summer homework. As we said last week , we know that summer vacation is still...
Episode 164: The Most Important Step in College Admissions
Before we start today's episode about the most important step in the college application and admissions process, we want to let you know tha...
Episode 163: What High Schools Do Colleges Visit?
Welcome back to our new series entitled Looking to Next Year . Today, we want to look at a well-known college recruitment practice and its r...
Episode 162: The High School Courses That Colleges Require
We are starting a new series today because we think that the college ship has sailed for almost all of our listening families with seniors....
Episode 161: College Wait Lists
As we said last week , most of you have made a decision about what college your kid is going to by now. You all have compared and contrasted...
Episode 160: The Best Advice About Choosing a College
Well, most of you have made a decision about what college your kid is going to by now. You all have sifted through the acceptances (hopefull...
Episode 159: Going to College in California?
This is the third episode in our series, Decision Time Again , because, of course, it is actually decision time for lots of parents and kids...
Episode 158: Does the College Matter?
This is the second episode in our new series, Decision Time Again . It's "again" for us because, as we said last week, we always do some epi...