The Path to College, Pt. 1: Getting Accepted (Ep. 109)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Work Smart, Career, Class, Productivity, Lifehacking, Learning, Business, College, Education, Lifestyle Design, Personal Branding, 101, University

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Choosing a college and getting accepted can be complicated. We go through the whole process step by step, and provide tips based on our experience. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Debt-Free U by Zac Bissonnette (the top pick on my Essential Books for Students list) The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha CollegeBoard's college application checklist CollegeBoard's detailed college application timeline Stop Trying to Find Your Passion How to win scholarships (Ep. 34) Resume and interview tips from Brad Karsh (Ep. 40) The power of storytelling in job interviews (Ep. 80) College interview don'ts Peterson's ultimate guide to getting into college Financial aid effect of early decision/early action ISU's minimum acceptance requirements and RAI formula The Superstar Effect Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.
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0:34.0	Hey what's going on everybody and welcome to the college info geek
0:41.0	podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student and I am once again joined by my good friend Martin Bamy.
0:49.0	What's up? Oh, hi there. Oh, hi. So, uh, we have tried to record this episode a couple of different times I feel
0:55.5	we're gonna get it right this time so this is the start I may have mentioned
1:00.8	this at the end of the previous episode if you happen to get to the end of that because it was a long conversation that Martin and I are starting a three-part series which we are calling the path to college and this is totally like a Hobbit situation
1:16.0	because we started out with one tiny outline and it ballooned into like this
1:21.3	ridiculously huge series we wanted to do. I don't even do you
1:25.4	remember what we were originally planning on doing with this? Was it just like
1:30.4	how to get into college or something? Yeah, it was I think it was going to cover parts one and two of this trilogy more lightly.
1:39.2	And then when we actually started we sat down and looked at the content it became huge and then you were like well
1:44.4	what about this and I had said that I was actually keeping that out of the scope
1:50.2	because it seemed too big but now that it's going to be several parts anyway
1:53.1	yeah let's just make it a part three yeah that's right we had I think it was how to get
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