THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa I think there is a misconception that if my kid’s IQ is X, they don’t really need a first year experience program. Right. They’ve got all the skills, but so many of those skills are developmental and it doesn’t matter your IQ, […]
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Are you worried about the day you drop your teen at college and leave them to “adult” on campus without you? Dr. Andrea Malkin Brenner, sociologist and co-author of “How To College”, joins Lisa to share insights gained from her decades of work with college students at American University. By starting early while still in
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THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa I hear all the time. I just don’t have time to read for pleasure, really? Think about that because I think you do, but you do have to prioritize my suggestion or my hack is if you don’t feel like you can
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If you have a soon to be high school senior, it’s college essay time of year! Betsy Cadel joins Lisa to reveal the best way to approach writing college admission essays without the overwhelm. You’ll have her proven timeline to set you up for success and Betsy’s going to tell us what admissions officers are
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Freshman year for free….what’s the catch? You’ll be delighted to find there’s no catch! Pulitzer Prize winner David Vise shares how Modern States Education Alliance’s free program has saved college students over 75 million dollars in tuition. Modern States quality courses are taught by college professors and coupled with CLEP exams. David’s asserts this actually
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THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa We have saved high school students and older college students and adult learners and folks who went to college and came back, whatever we’ve saved them so far in between 75 million and $100 million in college tuition. And given the high
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THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa Now’s the time to reflect and begin to plan a little bit. So look back and think about your extracurriculars. What extracurriculars did your student make? And even though we do look for longevity and to develop some stick with it, with
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In this episode, Lisa Marker-Robbins shares helpful ideas for your teen to keep the momentum of their college bound journey going over the summer while still enjoying some lazy days and much needed downtime. This episode takes a year-by-year journey. If your student is an upperclassman, don’t fast forward just in case you missed a
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If your teen likes Legos, sketching, or Minecraft, they might consider a career in architecture. In this episode, friends and hosts of the “Open Plan” podcast, Emily Khalid Zand and Maria Pastorelli, are speaking about their paths which crossed while they were pursuing their Master’s of Architecture from Georgia Tech. They’ll share about the high
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THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa The benefit of being a licensed architect is you could work on your own pretty much eventually if you want to like stamp your own drawings and you don’t need a licensed architect to stamp your drawings for you. So that’s what
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