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College Major Enrollment: How to Check Numbers Before You Choose

In today’s competitive academic landscape, choosing the right college and major is paramount for high school students on the threshold of their college journey. Lisa Marker Robbins, a seasoned expert with over three decades of experience guiding teens and their parents through the college selection process, unveils a vital strategy for making informed decisions. …

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How to Find College Supplemental Essay for Applications

Blog / By Lisa Marker Robbins

As early as 10th grade, high school students should start looking at the extra essays that colleges ask for. These are a big deal and can help guide your steps along the college-bound journey. To make this easy, we take you on a guided tour of how to use the Common App to find …

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#62 Gap Year: Is it a better freshmen start? Transcript

Transcripts / By Lisa Marker Robbins

THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa Lisa Marker-Robbins 00:00 If you drift into that gap year, without a plan in place of what you’re going to do with your time or what your teen is going to do with their time, then you don’t have as great …

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#062 Gap Year: Is it a better freshmen start?

Podcast / By Lisa Marker Robbins

Show Notes EPISODE SUMMARY Is the gap year for your teen? While only about 1% of American high school students currently take a gap year, the wildly popular custom in Europe is on the rise in the United States. Gap years can help your teen learn about the world, and different types of people, gain …

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#061 COVID Impact on College Admissions

Podcast / By Lisa Marker Robbins

Show Notes EPISODE SUMMARY As we hit the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve invited two guests, Amy Seeley and Cristiana Quinn, to discuss the effects it has had on college admissions. This includes both how students apply to college and how colleges determine who to admit. The last three years have felt like …

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#61 COVID Impact on College Admissions Transcript

Transcripts / By Lisa Marker Robbins

THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa Cristiana Quinn 00:00 With COVID, we’ve certainly seen the trend of even many students having better grades than they might have had without COVID. So now you’re in this predicament of if you thought that grades could predict success in college, while …

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#60 Say Goodbye to the Paper SAT Test Transcript

Transcripts / By Lisa Marker Robbins

THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa David Blobaum 00:00 So it’s really the end of an era. So for, you know, about 90 years, we’ve had a paper LSAT, and this is the last year 2023 of the paper essay T, starting in 2020. For the first test …

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#060 Say Goodbye to the Paper SAT Test

Podcast / By Lisa Marker Robbins

Show Notes EPISODE SUMMARY It’s the end of an era for standardized testing. For the past 90 years, students have taken their SATs in a pencil-to-paper format. However, as ACT and SAT expert David Blobaum shares, 2023 is the final year of the paper SAT. In March 2024, the SAT will be an all-digital test …

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#059 Career Close-Up: Accounting Doesn’t Have to be Boring

Podcast / By Lisa Marker Robbins

Show Notes EPISODE SUMMARY Forensic accounting brings some excitement to the career path of accounting. My guest, professor Jim Vogt, shares it is multidisciplinary and is about much more than just accounting. In this episode, we discuss the types of students who might enjoy learning forensic accounting skills as well as the different career paths …

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#59 Career Close-Up: Accounting Doesn’t Have to be Boring Transcript

Transcripts / By Lisa Marker Robbins

THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa Jim Vogt 00:00 One of the things about this path that I think surprises my students is how much we rely on the interviewing and those skills in interviewing techniques. And one of the topics I enjoy the most is working with …

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