Getting In: A College Coach Conversation

If you're curious about the challenges of applying to and attending college in the US as an international student, don't miss this week's episode. Karen Karidoyanes, director of international admissions at Bentley University will join us to discuss the application process, while Christine Lookner, director of the Center for International Students and Scholars will offer advice for international students arriving on campus in the fall. Finally, Christine Ng will talk us through how students can save money while they're in college.

In this week's Office Hours segment, we'll be offering tips for making the most of your college visits this summer. While you're visiting schools, you might consider a stop at the Career Services office. Michael Sherman of Graduate to Employment will offer tips to best evaluate how much support a college will offer in terms of finding a job. Finally, we'll be answering your college finance questions.

Whether you're getting ready to attend your first college fair or already have walked through a few, we have tips for making the most of that time. We'll also be reviewing some of the trends we saw this past admissions cycle and thinking about how that might impact the 2017-2018 admissions cycle. Finally, we'll look into where people with bad credit can go to find college loans.

Calling all rising seniors: join us this summer for Office Hours segments covering the college process. We'll be helping you get a jump start on application work, from essay writing to presenting your extracurricular activities to visiting colleges. In this week's segment, we'll be helping you get started on your college list. In other segments, we'll discuss college payment plans and take you inside the admissions office and practices at the University of San Francisco.

In this week's episode, we welcome Point Foundation program manager Jonathan Rosales and student scholar Bryce Celotto to the show to discuss applying to college as a LGBTQ student. In Office Hours, we'll be answering listener questions regarding college finance.

Faced with the first tuition bill and wondering how you're going to pay it? Don't miss our segment on scholarships with deadlines in July, August, and September—it may not be too late to get some more money. Office Hours will take a look at summer reading and its long-term value in the admissions process. Finally, our latest installment looking at the admissions practices at the institutions where College Coach educators previously worked takes us inside the admissions office at Georgetown University.

A lot of our listeners have graduate school on their minds, concerned about how their undergraduate choices will affect their chances of acceptance to MBA programs and medical school. This week we welcome experts in both fields to discuss how important where you go your undergraduate work is to medical school acceptance, including how that decision is factored into the med school admissions process. We'll also cover the steps students should be taking during their undergraduate years if the ultimate goal is to earn an MBA. For those focused on saving for the undergraduate program, we'll offer advice on choosing the best 529 plan.

Can your social media presence affect your offers of acceptance? On the heels of Harvard's decision to rescind 10 offers of admission over the students' unsavory social media activities, we're talking about how what you do online can negatively impact your college plans. In another of our series looking at admissions practices at a variety of institutions, we'll be walking through the admissions process at Tufts University with two former Tufts admissions officers who now work at College Coach. Finally, for all students and families hoping to spend a semester or year studying abroad, we'll be discussing how to financially prepare for this goal.

Ever wonder how a college like Reed goes about making admission decisions? This week we have two former Reed admissions officers taking us through Reed's process as part of our ongoing series Inside the Admissions Office. We're also answer listener questions on college finance and admissions.

Every college in the US is happy to answer your questions, and we frequently encourage students to approach colleges to get more information and address their concerns. But have you ever wondered if there are questions that you shouldn't ask? We'll give you our thoughts. Last week we tackled the question of whether or not you should save for college. This week we'll discuss how much you should save. Finally, we'll explore general services on college campuses for students with learning differences.