In this episode you will hear:   (06:00) Question from a listener Mark and Lisa answer a question from a student: If my sister turned down a highly selective school, will that be held against me? (11:35) Question from a listener:  Susan joins Mark to answer a question, How does Landscape help admission officers when they are reading an application? (43:45) Question from a listener Lisa and Mark answer a question about how can you know if a college has good career outcomes and how do you know if it is financially stable?     (57:45) Interview  Mark interviews Carlynn Greene, AKA, “the Scholarship Guru” on the topic of, How to Win Outside Scholarships   Preview of Part 1   ·         Carlynn gives her backstory and she explains how she became the Scholarship Guru ·         What is an external scholarship? ·         What are the best websites to search for scholarships? ·         Carlynn tells us how often a student should update their scholarship profile and she gives us a few great tips for having a successful scholarship profile ·         Carlynn gives some guidance to the person who is frustrated because they feel like the scholarships they are looking at are only for under-resourced students ·         Carlynn gives advice for students who are struggling with the discipline of applying for scholarships ·         Carlynn tells how many scholarships she believes students should apply to?   ·         Carlynn talks about where someone should start doing scholarship research? ·         Carlynn talks about professional associations and Community Foundations and she tells our listeners what Community Foundations are? ·         I ask Carlynn if she tells her clients to focus on local scholarships?         (01:08:56) Recommended Resource: https://formswift.com/swift-student   (01:19:18) College Spotlight-University of South Carolina Part 3 of 3 with Mark and Lisa       Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe. Unfortunately, we will NOT answer questions on the podcast anymore that are emailed in. If you want us to answer a question on the podcast, please use speakpipe.com/YCBK. We feel hearing from our listeners in their own voices adds to the community feel of our podcast.   You can also use this for many other purposes: 1) Send us constructive criticism about how we can improve our podcast 2) Share an encouraging word about something you like about an episode or the podcast in general 3) Share a topic or an article you would like us to address 4) Share a speaker you want us to interview 5) Leave positive feedback for one of our interviewees. We will send your verbal feedback directly to them and I can almost assure you, your positive feedback will make their day.   To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our new monthly admissions newsletter, delivered directly to your email once a month, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign-up popup. We will include many of the hot topics being discussed on college campuses.   Check out our new blog. We write timely and insightful articles on college admissions:   Follow Mark Stucker on Twitter to get breaking college admission news, and updates about the podcast before they go live. You can ask questions on Twitter that he will answer on the podcast. Mark will also share additional hot topics in the news and breaking news on this Twitter feed. Twitter message is also the preferred way to ask questions for our podcast:   https://twitter.com/YCBKpodcast   1. To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ 2. Find the specific episode transcripts for the one you want to search and click the link 3. Find the magnifying glass icon in blue (search feature) and click