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USACollegeChat Podcast

Policy Studies in Education

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...

Episodes

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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...

11:26Aug 30, 2018

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...

20:24Aug 23, 2018

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...

14:12Aug 16, 2018

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....

09:54Aug 9, 2018

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...

14:57Aug 2, 2018

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...

10:01Jul 26, 2018

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...

26:56Jul 19, 2018

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...

12:24Jul 12, 2018

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...

31:16Jul 5, 2018

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...

13:47Jun 28, 2018

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...

20:10Jun 21, 2018

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...

15:43Jun 14, 2018

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...

15:06Jun 7, 2018

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...

15:53May 31, 2018

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...

17:39May 17, 2018

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....

22:09May 10, 2018

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...

17:00May 3, 2018

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...

23:12Apr 26, 2018

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...

21:04Apr 19, 2018

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...

14:58Apr 12, 2018