🎙️ Growing Good Humans Podcast Event: The Complete Guide to College Transfer — Jaime Smith on the Roadmap That Made the Complex Process of Transferring Colleges Feel Manageable:

📌 Episode Recap:

Transferring colleges once felt overwhelming, confusing, and—let’s be honest—totally exhausting. But Jaime Smith, transfer admissions expert and certified educational planner, showed us it didn’t have to be. In this episode, we sat down with the author of The Complete Guide to College Transfer to unpack the myths, roadblocks, and practical steps students faced when making the move to a new college.

With over 25 years of experience supporting nontraditional learners, homeschoolers, and neurodiverse students, Jaime shared her compassionate, clear, and empowering approach to helping students find the college that truly fit—this time. Whether they were navigating credit transfers, financial aid, or just figuring out where to start, this conversation was filled with insight, encouragement, and hope.

🎧 Listeners heard:

• Why over a million students transferred each year
• How to find a transfer-friendly school
• Ways to maximize existing credits
• What colleges really thought about transfer students
• And why the path to a degree didn’t have to be linear to be successful

This episode was a must-listen for students, parents, educators, and anyone supporting a young person on their college journey.

🧠 Learn more about Jaime and her book at TransferSavvy.com

Resources discussed in the podcast:

Finding Community Colleges with dorms:

• collegexpress
• List of two-year colleges in the United States with campus housing

Finding Community Colleges with sports:

• National Junior College Athletic Association
• California Community College Athletic Association

Study Abroad Opportunities:

• Verto Education