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## Video: College Search for Undecided Students

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_Published 2016-08-01. Janet Marthers explains how undecided students can narrow down their college search._


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] Plenty of high school students they're 17 or 18, they don't necessarily know what they like or what they want. What do you say to a student like that? I would say there's plenty of options that are not hyper specific. We talk a lot about liberal arts colleges as being a great place To figure out what you wanna do, but still develop the writing and thinking skills, so that you can do a lot of different things. It's perfectly reasonable to go to college and figure yourself out, and then Maybe think about grad school in a very specific way. Ideally, you wanna do some sort of screening to narrow down the thousands of opportunities to a manageable amount, and that's where I would draw in some of the social interests, or athletic interest, or even a regional interest, or an economic interest.

Sometimes, your parameters are price and you wanna focus on schools that meet your price point. Are there any more formalized versions of soul searching that you recommend to students to help them sit down and kind of figure out About what it is that they like and don't like. There's some stuff they can identify as yea or nay. But I think of visiting campuses, when at all possible, is such a good experience, because even if you hate it, it can help you define what you don't want. And that can often be as hopeful as knowing what you do want. Right.

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