Beyond the Tassel
Episodes
47 episodes
Beyond the Tassel - Major Undertakings, Pin Action, and Bowling Metaphors
I think hustle, exploration, and throwing a 15-pound ball down 60 feet of hardwood is entirely underrated, vastly underappreciated but it plays a huge role in so many of the success stories we hear about. And not just the success stories that w...
Beyond the Tassel - The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Authenticity of Story in College Applications
If you’re going to make a dent in this world, you’re going to need to take a big, authentic swing at it. This week, we discuss the importance of positioning yourself as your own authentic brand with respect to your college applications. The asp...
Beyond the Tassel - Affording College: Finding the Money Through Merit, Aid, and More
Where will the money to pay for college come from? Some parents were able to sock away enough money from the time their children were very young to be able to draw on that account now, and fully fund college, but many families just didn’t manag...
Beyond the Tassel - The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Authenticity of Story in College Applications
If you’re going to make a dent in this world, you’re going to need to take a big, authentic swing at it. This week, we discuss the importance of positioning yourself as your own authentic brand with respect to your college applications. The asp...
Beyond the Tassel - Debunking College Myths: What It Is and What It Isn’t
This week we go into full myth-buster-mode and explore some of the things you might have thought you understood about college as well as some of the things that probably never occurred to you. In short, we debunk some myths about what college i...
Beyond the Tassel - Public vs Private Colleges/Universities: Pros and Cons
The differences between the actual degree earned at a public institution versus a private one are fairly inconsequential. But between the two formats, there are plenty of variances to consider: Cost, selectivity, culture, social vibe, and more....
Beyond the Tassel - Leveraging Your Network For Post-secondary Success and For Life
In 1624, an Englishman by the name of John Donne wrote the words, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” What he meant was we are all connected, one-to-another. Not only connected, bu...
Beyond the Tassel - The College Essay
The college essay is an essential piece to your college application. The common app calls it your personal statement. And, in many ways, this essay is as personal as it gets. But more people than you’d imagine consider a request to write someth...
Beyond the Tassel - College Choice, Near or Far: Considering the Distance Factor
Heading off to college after high school is — let’s face it — a huge adventure in and of itself. But when a student leaves their family and the home they’ve lived in for 17 or 18 years to attend college in a completely different city, state, or...
Beyond the Tassel, Navigating the Anxiety of the College Application Experience
Ramping-up for the college application process is part preparation, part inspiration, and part anxiety navigation. This week, we discuss the steps of a solid application, the keys to making the most of each of them, and the importance of keepin...
Beyond the Tassel, Seeking Programmatic Strength
In the world of things that matter to your academic outcomes, I cannot overemphasize the importance of understanding institutional programmatic strength. That’s just gotta be job one, if you’re primarily concerned with the strictly academic out...
Beyond the Tassel, Plotting Your Trajectory and Choosing Your Major
We’ve come through infancy, toddlerhood, childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Each and every one of us is made up of uniquely individual characteristics and experiences, which give shape to who we are, and hopefully each of us will plot...
Beyond the Tassel, The College Roommate Dynamic
Roommating is hard. And sometimes — more frequently than you might imagine — roommate situations erupt into really tough, super distracting outcomes. I spoke with a few current college students and several recent grads for this episode, and let...
Beyond the Tassel, The Different Flavors of Public Universities
When most students think of where they’ll go to college, many immediately consider the three schools with which they’re most familiar: their state flagship school, their regional university, and their community college. I’m going to talk about ...
Beyond the Tassel, Behind the Admissions Curtain
The post-secondary path often takes a circuitous route through a series of dark tunnels, switchbacks, dead-ends, trial balloons, and unknowns but at the end of the day, those who remain true to the journey, approach it with an open mind, and re...
Beyond the Tassel, Community Leadership and its Impact on Local Education: An Interview with Norma Lansing
Educators tell me all the time that it takes a village to successfully build a robust, energized school community with positive outcomes. And that’s not something that happens automatically. The state can’t do it. The school board can’t do it. ...
Beyond the Tassel, Social Media & Our Post-Secondary Hopes
We live in an extraordinarily interconnected society. But that’s really not new. Truth is, we always have. And those of us who grew up in small towns understand that reality, perhaps, better than most. Seems like having the inside scoop on the ...
Beyond the Tassel, The Golden Keys: Passion, Intellectual Curiosity, and Perseverance
Today, I want to explore these three important attributes of successful people. What they are, how we can acquire them, and how we can leverage them to accomplish remarkable things in our lives beyond the high school tassel. Not coincidentally,...
Beyond the Tassel, Dual Credit
First of all, can we all just accept that learning new things, along with the practical insights and strategic advantages they bring, is really one of THE most remarkable things about being human? I mean, sure, you could argue that all ou...
Beyond the Tassel, Leveraging Local Resources
This week, I’d like to do something a little different than usual. I’d like you to meet two students with rural roots but very different personal stories. Jackeline Garcia is a senior at Effingham High School in Effingham, Illinois, a county wi...
Beyond the Tassel, Major Undertakings, Pin Action, and Bowling Metaphors
I think hustle, exploration, and throwing a 15 pound ball down 60 feet of hardwood is entirely underrated, vastly under appreciated but it plays a huge role in so many of the success stories we hear about. And not just the success stories that ...
Beyond the Tassel, The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Authenticity of Story in College Applications
If you’re going to make a dent in this world, you’re going to need to take a big, authentic swing at it. This week, we discuss the importance of positioning yourself as your own authentic brand with respect to your college applications. The asp...
Beyond the Tassel, Affording College: Finding the Money Through Merit, Aid, and More
Where will the money to pay for college come from. Some parents were able to sock away enough money from the time their children were very young to be able to draw on that account now, and fully fund college, but many families just didn’t manag...
Beyond the Tassel, The College Essay
The college essay is an essential piece to your college application. The common app calls it your personal statement. And, in many ways, this essay is as personal as it gets. But more people than you’d imagine consider a request to write someth...
Beyond the Tassel, The ACT and/or the SAT
It is January 19, 2021, and at this moment, nearly 2 million high school juniors are beginning to ramp up to take the ACT and/or the SAT this spring. By the time Halloween rolls around, more than 50% of the class of 2022 will have taken one or ...