
Episode 177: Why the College's Cost Matters
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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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is the first episode in our new series, fondly entitled Decision Time Again . It's "again" for us because we always do some episodes ab...

This is the fourth episode in our new series of things we didn't know about certain colleges--or about higher education generally . Today, w...

This is the third episode in our new series of things we didn't know about certain colleges--or about higher education generally . But today...

This is the second in our new series of things we didn't know about certain colleges--or about higher education generally . I think this is...

It is officially March, and I feel that we have done all we can for the Class of 2022. Before we head into advice for the Class of 2023, we...

I come to our topic today with mixed feelings. We have talked about it on numerous occasions and written about it in our books. It's a topic...

Today we are going to talk about a topic that I bet you and your high school senior have not given any thought to. And yet, it's a topic tha...

Today's topic is something I have never thought much about at all. And that's true even though my oldest child was in this situation, and no...

Last year about this time, we did an episode on colleges with late application deadlines . We would like to do that again today, realizing t...

Hello, again! When we signed off in mid-December to take an end-of-year break, we thought that we would be back with you the first week of J...

It's the middle of December, and those of you with teenagers who are facing application deadlines in the first week of January either see th...

As you head into December and draw near to the looming college application deadlines that follow in the first two weeks of January, we are s...

First, Happy Thanksgiving to all our listeners! We hope you will have a lovely day, filled with family and food, and that you will have a re...

I really was not going to do this episode. I resisted doing our last two--one episode about The Common Application main essay (that 650-word...

Last week when we talked about college application essays for what seems to be the millionth time in our three years together, we suggested...

Well, it's officially November. Some Early Decision and Early Action deadlines have just passed, and many others are fast approaching on Nov...

We are in the last days of October, and Early Decision and Early Action deadlines are just a handful of days or a couple of weeks away. Ther...

In our last episode , we talked about narrowing down your teenager's long list of college options (or LLCO, as we call it in our new book Ho...

Last year, we spent the month of September suggesting some steps to take in order to narrow down your teenager's long list of college option...

Let's open today with an acknowledgment of a reasonably impressive milestone. We have just passed the third anniversary of our podcast. That...

This is an unusual episode in our series Researching College Options and for USACollegeChat as well. It looks at a critical issue today--one...

Today's episode in our series Researching College Options focuses on a trend in college enrollment that you might have missed entirely. But...

Today's episode in our series Researching College Options looks at a big option--an option that we have talked about in quite a few USAColle...

Welcome back from the Labor Day holiday and welcome back to school for those of you living in the Northeast, where the very last kids to sta...

We are in the fifth week of our new series, Researching College Options , and we have spent the last two episodes talking about the two most...

We are in the fourth week of our new series, Researching College Options , and we spent time in our last episode talking about the SAT and A...

We are in the third week of our new series, Researching College Options , and we are going to talk today about a topic that is unavoidable....

We are in the second week of our new series, Researching College Options . Now that it's August and high school students in some parts of th...

It's getting serious now. It's almost August, and kids who are headed off to their senior year in high school are realizing that it is time...

Today's episode is going to be the final one of our Colleges in the Spotlight series because next week we are really getting down to the ser...