In this episode you will hear:   1.     Most important factors: Take some time to look at the 27 factors to the left and rank the following things that matter a lot to some students and pick the 10 things from this list that matter the most to you and rank them from 1st to 10th, according to what you value the most in the college you select, 1st means, “most important”. Put a number, from 1-10 on the things that you care the most about from this list. o    Area Surrounding the College o    Campus Beauty o    Campus Setting (large city, small city, suburban, college town, remote) o    Career Outcomes o    Class Size o    College Rankings, Prestige, Selectivity o    Community oriented-Residential vs Commuter o    Cost/Affordability o    Distance from home o    Diversity o    Experiential learning (Co-ops/Internships, Study-Abroad, Research o    Facilities o    Food (Quality food, on and off campus) o    Friendliness o    Graduation Rates o    Name Recognition o    Nature/Green Spaces o    Overall Academic Excellence o    Political Climate o    Religious Affiliation o    Safety o    School Size o    Single Gender o    Sports/ School Spirit o    Strength in my major o    Student Support o   Weather   Vince interviews Sarah Lovely, an expert in admissions and the arts. 5 of 5   Preview of part 5 ²  Starts with Sarah giving advice for film majors ²  Vince adds some additional insights ²  Sarah talks about what you can learn from arts supplements ²  Sarah talks about arts scholarships. ²  Sarah talks about the arts student recommendation. ²  Sarah talks about all the places in the application to show your artistic interest. ²  Sarah puts Vince on the hotseat, and he asks her a question she used to ask her students when she did admissions at NYU       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 it 4. Enter whatever word you want to search. I.e. Loans 5. Every word in that episode when the words loans a