Here’s a condensed version of episode 23 on the Tom Talks College podcast with the graphic I referenced.
Hey, Juniors
This is the first in a series called “Hey, Juniors,” and the goal is simple: respond to your most common and most important questions with easy to understand visaul images and just enough verbiage to provide context. This week I’m tackling a question that seems far off, but our goal is to take a simple step that leads to action during a designated “work window.” Here’s the graphic.
You choose, juniors
The work windows given are just suggestions, and all of these are 45 days. If you want to kick butt and get ‘er done in 30 days, go for it. Let’s not drag this out anymore than we have to. But if you say you’re going to start then, you need to back it up with action. Until then, Mom and Dad have every right to talk with you about colleges — and you not only have the right but the opportunity to do the same — and everybody is on the same page about the start date.
Pieces and parts
In later podcasts, blogs, graphics and social media we’ll break down the application into its components to see how the pieces line up with what colleges look for in applicants. It’s going to make a lot of sense.
Next up: How to find the right colleges
Next week I’ll tackle one critical part of the much larger question about what to look for, what makes a college a great fit, what exactly is a “fit” anyway…and there will be another image, created by the former fine artist who never took a graphic design class. (No surprises there given the image above, TK.)
Until then…
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