76. Approaching College Choice Like a Business

Shellee Howard is a Certified Educational Planner and the Founder/CEO of College Ready, where she fulfills her passion for helping students get into the college that fits them best academically, financially and socially. On this episode of CFO at Home, Shellee and Vince discuss looking at college admissions like a business plan, the importance of GPAs, class choice, and extracurricular activities in the admissions process, and more.

Key Takeaways

• Break down college like you’re writing a business plan
  • Build your resume as if you're building a company
  • Take the emotion out of the admission process. Ask yourself “what do they want to know and who’s getting in”?
  • Taking classes with rigor is important (Dual enrollment college courses), not just GPA
  • GPA is generally the number one consideration, but other important factors are:
    • Entrance essay
    • Specific classes
    • Extracurriculars
    • Standardized test results
    • Community service 
    • Letters of recommendation
    • Picking the right school
      • You don’t want your student to attend a school that’s too academically rigorous for them
  • Think about the end game of your education
    • Example: if you’re going into business, do you need to make contacts in the local business community while in school
  • Students need to figure out what’s important to them

• If you child doesn’t know what they want to do, encourage them to try out different ideas through internships, research projects, or somehow actually doing the work in different areas

Resources

• CollegeReadyPlan.com

Ways to contact/follow:

• Email - shellee@collegereadyplan.com
• CollegeReadyPlan - LinkedIn
• CollegeReadyPlan - Facebook
• CollegeReadyPlan - Instagram
• CollegeReadyPlan - TicToc

Contact the Host - vince@thecfoathome.com