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Setting Your College-bound Student Up for Success on Day One
Setting Your College-bound Student Up for Success on Day One
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Aug 30, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Getting into college is one thing; what about completing your degree, and making the most out of the experience? In this conversation, college counselors and administrators talk about the importance of having the right mindset on the first day you set foot on campus. The best advice: know who you are, how you find success, and be honest with yourself about it. Live that reality by tackling fears and seizing opportunities from day one.Guests: Ralph Figueroa, the Dean of College Guidance at Albuquerque Academy; Dean Jacoby, Director of College Guidance at Albuquerque Academy; Aaron Stoller, Associate Vice President for Student Success at Colorado College. Moderated by Eddie Pickett, Senior Associate Dean of Admissions at Pomona College.
Released:
Aug 30, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (43)
College for Everyone: How College Counselors and Admissions Officers Can Get You There: In this episode, Jacques Steinberg, a member of the NACAC Board of Directors and the senior vice president for higher education and communications at Say Yes to Education and a former national education correspondent of The New York Times, welcomes Rafael Figueroa, dean of college guidance at Albuquerque Academy and former admissions officer at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Their candid discussion of what educators and college admissions professionals can do to help students and their families achieve the goal of getting into college provides practical advice and thought-provoking questions about the purpose and the pathways to higher education. Journalist Juleyka Lantigua-Williams moderates the discussion. by College Admissions Decoded