In this week’s episode you will hear

Question from a Listener (5:04): Number 1 – Julia and Mark answer a question from a mom who has a son at an independent school and she wants to know whether to hire an outside college counselor when the school her son attends is discouraging making a hire (Length 25 minutes)

Question from a Listener (30:01): Number 2 – Lisa and Lynda answer a question about which online tools to use for college research. (Length 7 minutes)

This week’s interview (37:14): Lisa interviews Adrienne Amador-Oddi-The VP of Queens University-Charlotte-Part 2 of 2 Part 2-Preview

• We start out by playing a very concrete example of how a conversation for a school to re-consider their original financial offer that is productive looks like. I played this last week but it is so important I am playing this example again to reinforce it if you heard that segment, and for those who missed last week, I didn’t want you to miss this important example
• Lisa asks Adrienne how should a family initiate an appeal for reconsideration for more money and Adrienne shares some of the different approaches that different schools use
• Adrienne talks about how a family can know how much merit aid they can expect to get from a school
• Adrienne talks about how more and more colleges are doing an early

Mark’s recommended resource of the week : N/A

College Spotlight : N/A

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