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Tara James
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Jun 2, 2026
Lizness School Side Quests!
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28:32Tara JamesGUEST
And one of the things that I started doing, especially during the pandemic, was working as a, a missions app evaluator for prospective students, for both high school programs and for universities.
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28:44Tara JamesGUEST
And I thought, "As I'm reading these admissions applications, I'm seeing a lot of kids who need help with putting an application together." And my son would think I was crazy, and I would start telling what I think he should do to get ready [laughs] for college, because this is what they're not doing.
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29:01Tara JamesGUEST
And so I thought, "Well, maybe I could actually put something together and monetize it so that I could have an admissions consulting business and help students put together college applications." And there's two parts of it.
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29:16Tara JamesGUEST
One part is I'd love to just help people start from ninth grade and build their application until it's time to submit it.
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29:25Tara JamesGUEST
But also, I would love to figure out a way to help kids who are in under-resourced schools who don't actually have college counselors or whose college counselors are overwhelmed because they have hundreds of kids to deal with.
S2E20: Side Quests from Listeners!
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28:51Tara JamesGUEST
And one of the things that I started doing, especially during the pandemic, was working as a, a missions app evaluator for prospective students, for both high school programs and for universities.
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29:04Tara JamesGUEST
And I thought, "As I'm reading these admissions applications, I'm seeing a lot of kids who need help with putting an application together." And my son would think I was crazy, and I would start telling what I think he should do to get ready [laughs] for college, because this is what they're not doing.
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29:21Tara JamesGUEST
And so I thought, "Well, maybe I could actually put something together and monetize it so that I could have an admissions consulting business and help students put together college applications." And there's two parts of it.
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29:36Tara JamesGUEST
One part is I'd love to just help people start from ninth grade and build their application until it's time to submit it.
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29:45Tara JamesGUEST
But also, I would love to figure out a way to help kids who are in under-resourced schools who don't actually have college counselors or whose college counselors are overwhelmed because they have hundreds of kids to deal with.