College Application Reality Check [Encore!]

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Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Fall can be an incredibly stressful time of year for high school seniors if they are considering college as a future path. Christine shares eight tips from her original 2022 college application reality check episode, preceded by encore notes in the form of four pieces of advice that have resonated both in the college and post-graduate application processes for her daughter Laurel (now a college senior). Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe on Substack to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.0	We're having a baby.
0:06.0	We're having a baby.
0:07.0	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.0	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.0	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.0	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.0	I think of it like a Tamagotchi.
0:17.0	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby.
0:21.6	Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.2	18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:35.3	Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:42.3	Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:56.7	I am really, really happy to elevate this episode from August 2022. The fall can be an incredibly
1:04.5	stressful time of year for seniors if they are considering college as their path. And before I go
1:10.6	further, let me say straight up that I am a proponent of kids finding the path
1:15.3	that works for them.
1:17.2	Personally, I'm super into the vocational track, having seen some incredible models of what this
1:22.8	looks like, but really, just keep in mind that college isn't the only option for kids to consider.
1:29.1	And also, college might not be the right fit now, but might be later.
1:33.5	Not everyone is ready for it straight out of high school.
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