Introduction : Mark Stucker shares when a student and parent should complete the portions of the college application process that are the most time consuming.

Mark interviews Rob Franek, Editor and Chief of the Princeton Review on the Latest “College Hopes and Worries” Survey – Preview of Part 2:

• Rob talks about the responses from the student survey to the question, how far from home do you want to go for college?
• Rob shares where he has seen the greatest changes in the responses
• Rob talks about how savvy students are?
• Rob explains what he talks about when he keeps going back on NBC
• Rob explains what he learns from the board members he sits in on and advises
• I explain the demographic breakdown of the survey respondents
• Rob explains what we can learn from the survey about the cost of college
• I ask Rob if he gets frequently solicitated by colleges not in the Best Colleges book
• Rob talks about game design at USC

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