through going through different college recruiting myself afterwards going into the workplace eventually coming here about four years ago these guests were giving you and maybe give you more insight into it so basically going into my first slide that i that i have here it's talking about  polishing and building a resume it's talking about the accomplishments and the strategies in the essays that you'll be doing what you want to do is you want to do a resume to send out to colleges with a picture on it to talk to the people at the college level give them a picture of yourself on the resume put the academics on there put the any extra curricular activities on there the recommendations if you play a sport the different schedules maybe the the goals and achievements that you've reached in the sport as well as academically the goals and achievements you've done academically so these is some of the things on the first slide here to give you that that understanding that colleges need to know about you the second slide is the most common misconceptions that parents have and students at the high school level have they talk about their sons and daughters being good enough in their sport or being good enough in academics it's great to have that aspiration but if you don't know colleges don't always know where you're located and that is the biggest thing at the college level is to to find out geographically where you want to go to school so if you don't if you go to a small school somewhere and want to go to a bigger school somewhere they need to know about you so the only way to do that is by doing these resumes to send out to schools because if your school is really small there's no one there to know what about you the second thing is don't always depend on coaches and guidance counselors the coaches and guidance counselors do their job they're supposed to be there to help you as much as they can but you also have to remember they had there to to work their jobs as well and that's what i mean by that is that high school coaches and guidance counselors have lives of their own some have their own students that are going to school so what you want to do is you want to give the information so then they can help you and guide you in a more direct route by picking a school knowing what schools you want so then when you go to those coaches and those guidance counselors they understand what you're looking for instead of just going in and knowing i don't know exactly where i want to go to school well the guidance counselor the coach can only give you a certain direction if you don't know what exactly where you want to go but geographically if you say to them i want to be in the northeast or the southeast or the midwest to the west coast or why your alaska while there you go those give you them more of a direct route and then when you define it to even a smaller amount of schools like a particular state or a particular town or a particular league then you can actually get them to look into it even more and the last thing and daughters that that are number ones in that class and they say oh wow i can go to any school i want i'm number one in my class the reality is there are only eight ivy league schools out there so number one is in their class there are thousands and thousands of high schools in the united states but the ivy leagues can take everybody it's almost impossible to pick number ones all across the united states all go to the ivy league schools so some of those students that are number ones in the class sometimes don't get into an ivy league school so you have to have a backup plan you have to have a plan of action not just in the school itself but other schools in general my next slide is supermarket recruiting and this is more for the athletes that are out there so the way i put it is really simple think of supermarkets as the colleges think of the people in the supermarkets with the shopping carts as the college coaches think of the products on the store  students and i happen to give an example of coca cola and pepsi and r c color in a store brand and the reason why a lot of people go with the the the coca cola and pepsi brands is because they advertise they advertise three hundred sixty five days a year seven days a week twenty four hours a day and the reason behind that is to make you pick up that particular product the other brands the r c cola the store brands those of the more lesser brands and the reason why you don't always pick up those brands is because they don't advertise so if you want to get your son or daughter to really be picked up by someone you need to advertise that's what i mean by supermarket recruiting it just means that you want to get the product advertise and your son and daughter are on those products they have the product at the college level they are the ones that the colleges want them and it's not just for athletes it's for and missions as well if they don't know about you they can recruit you no matter if it's academically or athletically my next slide is about men's sports these are just some of the men's sports that are out there is many different sports out there you take riflery they have seven colleges in the united states that have rifle range there are sports like volleyball and water polo wrestling gymnastics cross country these are all men's sports that sometimes people don't even realize they can go on and play at the college level it's up to you the parent to sit down with your sons and daughters and to go through everything and to look at that and say oh wow this is something that we can do you have sports like bowling seventeen colleges out there that have bowling programs why not try to mount check them out look at them find them that's the key to getting out there and getting to the college level is knowing exactly what's out there if you don't know what's out there you won't know how to get there so the next step is women's sports that's my next slide and again the same thing there's so many different sports out there from rowing if you're a rower and you want to get out there there's one hundred twenty one colleges in the united states that have rowing programs but you need to find them that's the key again wardo polo riflery for women is a little bit higher than riflery for the men this twelve's twelve colleges that have rifle ready for women then you have lacrosse and you gymnastics you also want fencing out there so these are just some of the sports that you're out there actively looking for if you don't know that they're out there you won't know how to get them so get out there and look for them now there isn't a slide on on here for what people always ask for which is scholarships and the usually the thing that i always tell families is there are plenty of scholarship books out there there's one called the scholarship book it's on barnes and noble amazon most of the web sites have it it's a really an one thousand dollars book twenty dollars book but it has thousands of scholarships it's to sit down and to look at those scholarships to work through the long haul because there's so many different kinds from ethnic groups scholarships to being a left hander it's just so many different ways of doing scholarships but you have to read each and every one of them you have to find out when the deadlines are there's so many different things in the scholarship book that you have to do that my next flight is the expense of college so if you can see the average public university is around twenty one thousand dollars the average private universities around forty two thousand  university is up past fifty thousand dollars a year now this is without room and board this is without the extra curricular activities that your sons and daughters might do at college you also have to take into account travelling expenses so if your son or daughter lives in new jersey and happens to go to school in california well they have to get out there somehow so how about f air have to account into afaik how about storage because of course they're not going to just wear one set of clothes for the ten months that they're out there so you want to make sure you have storage out there you wan make sure that you have the travel expenses included this is all added costs that families sometimes don't look at so you want to make sure you have all the added costs this just gives you a generalistic of what colleges cost and you also have to remember every year colleges go up every year so if your daughter or your son is in a school where it has twenty five thirty thirty five thousand dollars a year and you know by the time they graduate it's going to be even more than that so you want to make sure that you have a way of taking care of all this it's very difficult to get out there and to to say wow i only have enough for one year well all goes x explanations and all of those things that you have in your mind need to get taken care of before your son and daughter actually goes to school so you should go to those guidance counselors go to those schools and check out the financial aid offices and sit down with all the people and work out something every year that you're going to be there before you actually start school my next slide is the chances of graduating in four years while two in ten from a public school graduate that's pretty good and less than one in two from a private school sixty five percent and rolled the students do not complete if when your degree and fifty percent do not finish where they started so what happens is this a lot of times if they don't pick the right school you're going to end up at another school because maybe you didn't fit in correctly at that school there's three things that i always tell students parents gave graphically where do you want to go to school academically where can you graduate from and then the last thing is extracurricular activities if it's a sport where can you play if it's needed or dance dance band any of that can you do that at the school if those three things are not in your mind when you're picking a school then you shouldn't be going to that school you should be checking all the schools out and making sure that you have the right school before you go there that would eliminate that fifty percent of not going to the one school and then staying there for four years might actually get it to hundred percent it's very difficult to pick a school it's more like picking out a house you don't pick out a house without seeing the house so you want to go visit the schools check them out if you're not actually able to check out the schools these days they have online services where you can actually toward a school online that's one thing that you can do if it's still something that doesn't fit maybe it's not the right school maybe you need to look at another school so what i'm saying to you is checking the schools as early as possible what i found in the years of of doing the interviews with all of these different people is the earlier to find and look for schools the better so if you're a freshman or a sophomore in high school now's the time to start looking now's the time to start figuring it all out because if you're a senior what happens as a senior as everything gets rushed it's twelve months before you graduate ten months of the school year and then another two months of summer right and what happens is it goes so quickly that you don't actually find the right school and hence what you hit is a fifteen percent change over where i'm trying to tell you is to go more in depth and look for the right school for you my next flight is the amount of aid currently available for students in the united states it's one hundred sixty five billion dollars that's a lot of money that's out there are available but if you don't actively look for it it's not going to be there for you everyone has a chance for  have to actively go out and find it where my next slide shows you the types of aid that are available academic aid academic aid is really comes down to academics that's it if you have great grades you're going to get academic aid if you don't the odds are against you athletic aid well athletic a it comes down to the same thing but in athletics it's a little bit more because it all also comes down to the openings and what i mean by that is this if let's say you play football or you play basketball and you play a particular position maybe it's a quarterback maybe it's a running back and you want to go to a particular school but yet they are all stacked up with the quarterbacks and running backs the odds on you getting into that school goes down a lot because there's so many that are already there that there's no way of getting in now if you have to go in a year where they're graduating a lot of those positions then  odds start to go in your favor it starts to go up even more so the reality becomes picking the right school again looking for the right particular sport the right particular classes of the talents that you're looking for talents like doing extracurricular things charity work volunteer work that all means a lot at the college level especially if you create your own charity maybe you build up a charity you have your own foundation of some sort well that helps at the college level because not a lot of people will actually do that if you join the circus for three months not a to join the circus for three months so what i'm saying to you is have something that's extra something that's out of the ordinary that not a lot of people would do maybe you're a carpenter maybe you build things for a living that's great if that's something that you like just add that to your resume then it comes down to financial me financial need is family income and family assets that's what it comes down to at the college level that's what they're looking for is family income and family assets if you don't have a lot they give you a lot if you have too much they won't give you as much as the way it works it's just that's the process and if you can't get into the process and you don't work the process known well so the last couple of things there are scholarships and grants those are things that the school has scholarships are at the school and it's more about the alumni at the school that offered the different scholarships so a lot of the monies come in from the alumni and that's what creates the scholarships for different sports and if you're not actively in a particular sport well of course you won't be able to get that particular scholarship but if you do in extracurricular activity and they happen to have scholarships for that then you go after that grants come from the federal government and the federal government is basically it gives the school a certain amount of money and the school has to give that money to people that are financially needed those are things that you need to not pay back at the end of the four years scholarships you don't pay back at the end of the four years but the others would be things that you have to pay back all the loans that are out there student loans of different sorts those are those loans that actually get pa back at the end of the graduation and start to paying them all back if that's the case ok but the bottom line is finding the right school for you and all of these four years that i've had doing all of this with different coaches teachers and ministration people financial aid people career service people they all are saying the same thing started early as possible look for the right schools let you pick the schools don't let other people pick the schools because other people will pick the schools that they like so you want to pick a school that fits you so that's what we're trying to do here we're trying to give you college information to give you insight into different things because if you noticed over the four years people have done many different things heck i'm even doing this show but i've done different things in my life as well so everybody does different things throughout their life and if you're if you're one of those students that are out there picking  school finding the right career path is a big thing so everybody wants to try to do it and that's what we're looking for here we're just looking for a way of giving you an understanding of the process because i found in all the years there isn't a book out there that gives you an exact process there isn't a book to tell you exactly what a school does how it works how it goes about things there a one out there so they show gives you that process it gives you that understanding of what they look for certain schools looking for different types of academics their friend types of athletics and it gives you an understanding of how they find you finding you in the high schools finding you outside the high schools because that's the key the key always comes back to the advertising advertise yourself help people about yourself tell people what you do and how you do it because in high school some schools a small some schools a large the largest schools tend to get more publicity only because they're bigger they have the bigger names the small schools have the same thing it's just that no one knows about you so you need to get yourself out there to get people to understand who you are what you do that's the key to this that's the key to the show the key to the show is to get you to take an action to get you to move and make something of yourself to find the right passion that you can do as an individual that's what we're trying to do here we're trying to give you a better process give you a better on the standing of how the the the colleges work and that's all we're doing all of my teachers and coaches in administrative people have all told you basically the same thing start start early the earlier the better so as we come down to the end of our show what i want to give you as advice because i always tell my guests to give you advice is the same thing as everyone else start as early as possible find the right school for yourself find the right academic school for yourself find the right sports school for yourself and the rights and make a difference for yourself and find it in any way possible so thank you very much for this show and