College: Applications, Choices & More with Laura Clarke, College Admissions Advisor

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

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Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Laura and Sarah open with a discussion of their own college application journeys, remembering the word processor days of yore (!). Then, Laura Clarke joins host Laura for a fascinating discussion on the current state of college admissions, college selection, and beyond. In the Q&A, a listener writes in asking about spacing between kids - should she go for #3 shortly after #2?

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their
0:22.6	flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start
0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist,
0:38.3	and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side.
0:44.3	We are two working parents who love our careers and our families.
0:47.3	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun.
0:53.3	From figuring out child care
0:55.1	to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life.
1:02.2	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This is episode 266, airing in early September of
1:09.6	2022. I'm going to be interviewing Laura Clark, who helps people
1:14.5	apply for college. So she's got some tips and recommendations, particularly for our listeners
1:20.9	who have middle school and high school aged children about how you should be thinking about the
1:26.5	process, little things you can be doing.
1:29.5	I mean, one tip that I came away from this interview with is just taking a few minutes now,
1:34.9	even though I don't have anyone applying to college currently, to look at the common app.
1:39.7	A lot of colleges use the common application these days. And if the first time you're looking at it is when
1:45.0	you're actually filling it out, you may not have been thinking about the things, the information that you
1:49.4	will need to put on there in the future. So certainly if you have a child who wants to keep track of
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