In this week’s episode you will hear

Question Number 1 (6:00): Mark and Lisa answer a question from a student: If my sister turned down a highly selective school, will that be held against me? (Length 5 minutes)

Question Number 2 (11:35): Susan joins Mark to answer a question, How does Landscape help admission officers when they are reading an application? (Length 32 minutes)

Question number 3 (43:45): Lisa and Mark answer a question about how can you know if a college has good career outcomes and how do you know if it is financially stable?

(Length 14 minutes)

Interview (57:45): Mark interviews Carlynn Greene, AKA, “the Scholarship Guru” on the topic of, How to Win Outside Scholarships. Preview of Part 1

• Carlynn gives her backstory and she explains how she became the Scholarship Guru
• What is an external scholarship?
• What are the best websites to search for scholarships?
• Carlynn tells us how often a student should update their scholarship profile and she gives us a few great tips for having a successful scholarship profile
• Carlynn gives some guidance to the person who is frustrated because they feel like the scholarships they are looking at are only for under-resourced students
• Carlynn gives advice for students who are struggling with the discipline of applying for scholarships
• Carlynn tells how many scholarships she believes students should apply to?
• Carlynn talks about where someone should start doing scholarship research?
• Carlynn talks about professional associations and Community Foundations and she tells our listeners what Community Foundations are?
• I ask Carlynn if she tells her clients to focus on local scholarships? (Length 22 minutes)

Mark’s recommended resource of the week (1:08:56): https://formswift.com/swift-student

College Spotlight (1:19:18): University of South Carolina Part 3 of 3 with Mark and Lisa

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