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It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show

where our mission is to serve you and empower you so you make better financial decisions in your life.

Well, you know it's that time of year.

College decisions are coming out and we're hearing staggering numbers on the news

on how hard it is to get in some schools.

I have another perspective to share with you today.

Also, I have to follow up on a recent podcast where I talked about my all-time favorite pastime, which is travel.

My wife says that I'm happier in an airport than I am anywhere else.

That's not quite true.

But I'm going to tell you how to navigate a time where the prices for travel have gone

crazy.

But right now, I want to talk about college.

So there are a small number of colleges in the United States that are elite colleges

that are accepting the smallest number of percent of applicants they ever have, not number, but percent.

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