For our final guest of season 2, Rick and Brennan are joined by Harlan Cohen, author of multiple books including WIN or LEARN: The Naked Truth About Turning Every Rejection Into Your Ultimate Success. The trio goes over lots of Harlan's story of going to and transferring colleges, how to build resilience during these transformative years, and the main takeaways from WIN or LEARN.

Links:
Harlan's website
The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College - Cohen

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Hosts: Brennan Barnard, Rick Clark
Guest: Harlan Cohen
Production: Jack Purdy

Rick and Brennan are joined by Michael Horn (author of multiple books, Forbes contributor, host of multiple podcasts, and writer of the Substack newsletter The Future of Education) to discuss making dual enrollment class choices, evaluating intellecutal safety on campuses, and how he likes to approach evaluating a college when deciding where to go.

Links:
Michael Horn's website
Future U Podcast
From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)Creating School for Every Child  - Horn
Michael's Twitter account

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Hosts: Brennan Barnard, Rick Clark
Guest: Michael Horn
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With finals season approaching at colleges across the country, Rick and Brennan are joined by Dr. Beth Cabrera, an organizational psychologist and author specializing in positive psychology and well-being, to go through her admission journey, her advice on how to maintain healthy relationships during the college application process, and practical ways to make that process smoother for kids and families.

Links:
Beth's TEDx Talk at George Mason
Beth Cabrera's website
Beth's Twitter Page

Where You'll Go Is Not Who You'll Be - Frank Bruni
David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell 

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Hosts: Brennan Barnard, Rick Clark
Guest: Dr. Beth Cabrera
Production: Jack Purdy

Rick and Brennan are joined by experienced strategy consultant and master of college sports data graphics on Twitter, Tony Altimore, to discuss the landscape of college athletics in relation to admission, how the transfer portal can help or hurt students in their academic journey, and what the oncoming demographic cliff can mean for schools that rely on athletics.

Links:

Tony Altimore's Twitter page
Demographic Cliff chart - Tony Altimore

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Hosts: Brennan Barnard, Rick Clark
Guest: Tony Altimore
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With Brennan on vacation, Rick gets his first one on one interview of season 2, talking with David Hawkins from NACAC about his admission experience, the lastest effects from the FAFSA delay, and how to frame to the general public why college is an important piece to a functioning community.

Links:
David Hawkins' profile
Just Equations

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Guest: David Hawkins
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With Rick out chauferring a youth soccer team, Brennan gets a one on one with Dr. Lisa Damour, clinical psychologist, 3x New York Times best seller, host of the Ask Lisa podcast to talk about the added stress the college search process brings, how to deal with that stress, and where families can potentially be freed up to be more happy during and after the process.

Links:
Lisa Damour's website
Lisa's early admission Instagram video
A panel on supporting youth mental health (feat. Lisa) - Harvard + Making Caring Common Project
CGN "Teenagers Decoded" Registration

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Guest: Dr. Lisa Damour
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Rick and Brennan this week are joined by Candice Mackey, College Counselor at
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies and Co-Chair of the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s Public School Counselor Group. They talk about her experience going through college, what keeping an open mind in the search process can do for a student, and going through important conversations with your family unit early to ensure everyone is on the same page during the entire college search process.

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Guest: Candice Mackey
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TJ Snowden, the Chief of Staff for the President of Morehouse College in Atlanta, joins Rick and Brennan to go through his admissions experience when he was choosing a college, explaining what institutional prorities are and how to find them, along with advice for juniors and parents of juniors heading into their college application cycle.

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Guest: TJ Snowden
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Rick and Brennan are joined by one of Intialview's co-founders, Gloria Crawford, to discuss how the platform has been instrumental in the admissions space, how to approach their interviews, what to focus on, and advice for parents navigating the admissions space.

Links:
Initialview Home Page
Chinese Students and U.S. Universities Connect Through a Third Party (2016) - New York Times
College Admission Wrapped 2023 - Forbes

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Eric Hoover, senior writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education, joins Brennan and Rick to talk about his first impressions of college counseling during his high school days, stories of how he's seen counseling impact people at the ground level, the varying levels of transparency in college aid, and some big admissions items to lookout for in 2024.

Links:
Articles by Eric
The Verification Trap - The Chronicle for Higher Education
Eric Hoover on College Admissions and Standardized Testing Changes - C-SPAN
Follow Eric on Twitter @erichoov

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