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Podcast: College Matters. Alma Matters.
Episode: Counseling with Admissionado: Athena Lao on Rolling up the Sleeves to Find the Right College.
Description: Episode summary introduction: College counselors have enormous power to do good, to guide students to the right college destinations.
Athena Lao, Head College Mentor at Admissionado, talks about their hands-on approach to counseling.
In particular, we discuss the following with him:
What is Admissionado?
About students in the US, India, China
College Admissions in the Pandemic World
Topics discussed in this episode:
How Athena got into Counseling [2:18]
Birth of Admissionado [4:23]
Counseling Successes so far [6:25]
Counseling is a Long Game [9:19]
Extracurriculars Idea Gen [13:38]
Domestic vs...