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USACollegeChat Podcast
by Regina Paul and Marie Segares for Policy Studies in Education
NYCollegeChat is a weekly podcast for parents and high school students about the world of college options hosted by Regina Paul and Marie Segares. NYCollegeChat is a program of Policy Studies in Education, a non-profit organization with over 40 years of success in engaging parents and school boards in K-12 education. For more information, including detailed show notes with links to all the colleges mentioned in each episode, visit http://nycollegechat.org/.Connect with us! Follow us on Facebook or Twitter as NYCollegeChat. Contact us with questions at 516-900-NYCC or [email protected].
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 time, the Long List of College Options). And, one last reminder: Feel free to rush online and get our workbook How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook...
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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 she will be accepted by a college. Of course, no one can say for sure whether your kid's grades or admission test scores or extracurricular and community…
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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 her search for colleges more effective. Just to repeat, these steps are based on our workbook How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School...
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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. As you know by now, these steps are based on our workbook How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students (get one at Amazon ASAP)....
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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 Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students for further detail and more examples (it's still available at Amazon). Step 10 calls for your son or...
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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 have been explained, with more examples and details, in our workbook How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students. Workbooks are...
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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 episodes this summer and also, with more examples and details, in our workbook How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students. Workbooks…
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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 explained in our episodes this summer and also at greater length with more examples and details in our workbook How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for...
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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 elaborately in our workbook How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students. So, order a workbook from Amazon for your son or daughter…
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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 How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students. Get one from Amazon for your son or daughter before they are all gone! In the last...
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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 workbook How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students. It's not too late to get one from Amazon for your son or daughter. In the...
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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, How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students, then you haven't done your summer homework. So, get one from Amazon, or listen very...
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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 a couple of weeks away for some of you, but I have to believe that no real work is still being done in most high schools, especially not for seniors. So…
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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 that we are headed into our final season of USACollegeChat. Well, I wouldn't rule out coming back on Netflix or something by popular demand from our listening...
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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 ramifications. That practice is the visiting of high schools by college admissions staff. Maybe our discussion today won't come as a surprise to you; but,...
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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. Of course, some of you are still looking at a few options; some of you have even put down deposits at more than one college, or so we hear; and, some of you...
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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 the colleges that accepted your son or daughter and made the best decision you thought you could. However, there might be one or two of you still holding out...
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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 (hopefully, there was more than one), weighing all manner of things while making the decision. However, I know there are still a few of you out there who have not…
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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 out there. Although USACollegeChat is headquartered on the East Coast, we have some loyal listeners in California, and California colleges, including its...
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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 episodes about college decision making in April, for obvious reasons. 1. Isn't This Counterintuitive? Every year at this time, pundits and educators write…
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Episode 157: Thinking Through College Acceptances
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 about college decision making at this time of year, and it seems that the decisions just keep get harder and harder each year for all of you parents and your...
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Episode 156: They Teach Happiness at Yale
This is the fourth episode in our new series of things we didn't know about certain colleges--or about higher education generally. Today, we are taking a look inside the ivy-covered walls of Yale University, but I think you will be very surprised about why we are taking that look. I know that…
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Episode 155: Foreign Languages and College Admissions
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, we are actually going to talk about some new data out about high schools because those data have implications for college-going, I believe. To be fair, I...
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Episoe 154: Instant College Admission Decisions
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 a case of the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know. Even though we have worked with colleges for a living for decades, we have learned a lot...
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Episode 153: Outstanding New Documentary on HBCUs
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 are going to do a few episodes on things we didn't know about certain colleges--or about higher education generally. As we have always said, we learn…
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Episode 152: Choosing a College Because of a Major
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 that lends itself to some data-based analysis, but I have to say that it also causes me to think about my own philosophy about academics and what is…
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Episode 151: What About a College's Grading Practices?
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 that you and your high school senior have done nothing but think about for the past year or so, just from a different perspective. That topic is grades. Or more...
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Episode 150: College Acceptance for the Spring Semester?
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 one seemed to think much about it when he was accepted to Berklee College of Music a dozen years ago. When Jimmy applied to Berklee (the college we like to...
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Episode 149: Colleges with Late Application Deadlines!
Last year about this time, we did an episode on colleges with late application deadlines. We would like to do that again today, realizing that some colleges have changed their deadlines, of course, since our episode last January. It is amazing to me--still--that so many colleges have deadlines…
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USACC 148: College Deferment and a Letter of Appeal
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 January. But, you know what they say about the best-laid plans…. So what happened? The flu, the snow, and the unexpected week-long extension of a business…
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Episode 147: It's a New College World, Or Is It?
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 that the end is in sight or are pulling out your hair. Whichever it is, I am not sure how much more we can do for you. I will make our standard offer,...
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Episode 146: The Biggest College Application Mistake You Are About To Make
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 sure you have a lot on your minds, parents. Almost all of you are worried about how you are going to pay for whatever college your teenager eventually enrolls...
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Episode 145: Supplemental College Application Essays—The Sequel
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 relaxing long weekend. Oh, except for the fact that some of your teenagers will be finishing up college application supplemental essays--or worse still, just...
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Episode 144: Supplemental College Application Essays—Oh, My!
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 statement that all seniors' parents and teachers have come to loathe at this time of year) and one episode about the sad fact that our high school seniors…
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Episode 143: High School Students Can't Write
Last week when we talked about college application essays for what seems to be the millionth time in our three years together, we suggested that you go back and listen to Episodes 98, 99, 106, and 110 if you have a senior at home with college application essays due now and over the next few…
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Episode 142: What's Wrong with Your Kid's College Application Essay?
Well, it's officially November. Some Early Decision and Early Action deadlines have just passed, and many others are fast approaching on November 15. There is very little time left for those of you interested in submitting early applications. As we said at length in Episode 138 and as we have...
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Episode 141: The Role of Parents in College Applications
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. There is still time, but not much for those of you interested in early applications (and we think that should be almost all of you, for Early Action at least).…
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Episode 140: The Scandal of Transferring College Credits
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 How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students), and we discussed several questions to ask yourselves about those colleges as you...
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Episode 139: Narrowing Your Teenager's List of College Options
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 options (or LLCO, as we call it in our new book How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students). We talked about a number of filters you...
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Episode 138: It's Early Decision/Early Action Time Again
Let's open today with an acknowledgment of a reasonably impressive milestone. We have just passed the third anniversary of our podcast. That's three whole years of trying to put the college applications and college admissions process into perspective and within the grasp of the all-too-many…
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Episode 137: College Support Services: More Important Than You Think
This is an unusual episode in our series Researching College Options and for USACollegeChat as well. It looks at a critical issue today--one that can have terribly serious consequences for students and their families. The issue was raised in an insightful late August article by Alina Tugend in…
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Episode 136: Too Few Male Students at College?
Today's episode in our series Researching College Options focuses on a trend in college enrollment that you might have missed entirely. But if you have a son at home, it might be of particular interest to you--especially if your son is in the early days of high school (or even younger!). 1. A…
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USACC 135: Another Look at Community Colleges
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 USACollegeChat episodes and in our first book, How To Find the Right College: A Workbook for Parents of High School Students. Most recently, we took a careful look…
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Episode 134: The College/Career Value of Internships
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 start back reside. And welcome back to our series, Researching College Options, where we have spent the last three episodes talking about the academic hurdles...
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Episode 133: What High School Courses Will Get You into College?
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 likely academic hurdles that kids will meet in trying to get into a college: that is, first, the SAT and ACT scores of newly admitted and/or enrolled…
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Episode 132: High School Grade Inflation and College Admissions
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 ACT and their almost-unavoidable continuing role in college applications and admissions. Yes, we said that there are plenty of test-optional and test-flexible...
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Episode 131: College Admission Testing, One More Time
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. It is a topic that we have talked about on several episodes of USACollegeChat and one that we have written about in both of our books for high school students...
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Episode 130: Opening Your Eyes About College Options
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 the country will actually be returning to school this month for their senior year, it's time to get to work. So, for this new series, we are going to be talking...
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Episode 129: What You Don't Know About Colleges
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 to get moving on investigating college options more thoroughly. There are a hundred things we would like to tell you and your senior about that and just as...
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Episode 128: College Enrollment in Decline?
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 serious work of getting our rising high school seniors ready to apply to colleges. So, as we leave Colleges in the Spotlight, we want to take a look at a news...
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NYCollegeChat is a weekly podcast for parents and high school students about the world of college options hosted by Regina Paul and Marie Segares. NYCollegeChat is a program of Policy Studies in Education, a non-profit organization with over 40 years of success in engaging parents and school boards in K-12 education. For more information, including detailed show notes with links to all the colleges mentioned in each episode, visit http://nycollegechat.org/.Connect with us! Follow us on Facebook or Twitter as NYCollegeChat. Contact us with questions at 516-900-NYCC or [email protected].
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Regina Paul and Marie Segares for Policy Studies in Education
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