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Make the Grade with Dr. Steven Greene
"visions llc" Discussed on Make the Grade with Dr. Steven Greene
"A class without any sort of college experience just online classes so this is not necessarily condemnation of of the higher education system in the world. This is just the fact that some people maybe forty percent maybe half are just not making decisions that are suited. Best for what they want with a need maybe their maturity level maybe just their goals right and listen. You don't have to go to college. Be a success. i'm not. I don't think either of us are suggesting that the always successful people in the world whatever that definition is our p. of college degreed people but in sort of the normal track and go here. Here you go to college. You get a job yet. Career it's certainly still ingrained in the american dream. Kinda mindset how did you i i. I know we've heard you're a little bit. You know you were concerned about your own kids. Where do you. Where do you get all this information. Is this like a big secret like a cia. Kind of thing. I mean do you i mean how do you know how how do you confidently position yourself as a trusted adviser in this space. Gray questions steve. So i am a detailed oriented person. I'm an analyst. So i ask a lot of questions and i'm researching data. The government has a wealth of data on colleges I've i have a theory on that. But i don't know the facts but i think there's some government people in government who wanted to know and understand how to make a decision and they wanted all the stats for themselves to collect to ensure and it's from a consumer perspective right from a consumer perspective. If you don't have this information you are in the dark So it is helpful that the government requires colleges to fill out these forms to provide the statistics of retention the statistics of graduate rates. Otherwise it's a big black hole and you would not know unless you have you know. A a savvy. Business sky asking all these questions to the colleges and then determining whether this information is is valid or not and You know and that's one of the talents. That i have is understand the judgment of the person how prepared they are to answer these questions. And and i can tell you most most of these folks that i talked to in college. They're not always prepared to answer these questions because they they are suing that these are going to be academic questions. No they're actually business questions. And how will their performances and this is something that They're not all savvy on because there's there an academic institution and they're Not always measuring the performance of Their their organization to know how well they're doing well. I know from a college perspective. Graduation rate is an important metric rate. But somebody could graduate and not necessarily have a skill set. I mean graduating just kind of float through classes. And so let let. Let's shift gears a little bit by the way. This is steve. Green my guest philby tronto from beautiful long island new york. His company planning vision. Llc helps students make the smartest decisions account.
Make the Grade with Dr. Steven Greene
"visions llc" Discussed on Make the Grade with Dr. Steven Greene
"Gotta guess today. Fill the tronto phil welcome. How are you wonderful steve. Thank you for having me today. Wonderful wonderful here guy. He's from he's from texas fills from texas now. Just joking feel welcomed from new york right long mastic long island long massive you there we go so fill east coast guy like me. Let me tell you a little bit about them. Smart guy man feels got an mba from the distinguished hofstra university. We'll fail famous for maybe jets training camp. I knew that little trivia. Nfl fans out there. Anyway I spent seven years. Seven years researching analyzing colleges and speaking to hundreds of college students and staff to understand the strengths and weaknesses of these universities created a company called planning and vision. Llc we're going to get into that his mission to help families and students prepare to optimize their investment in college. I want to underline that word. Investment people think of it that way and he provides them with the competitive edge and career. Planning which is pretty important right Coach phil users strategic data driven methods to identify the best college fit for each prospective student with a contri- thrive academically and socially and within a family budget. So all these things are critical right. What's the average college costing more quarter million dollars. I don't know right. So the average cost is Thirty eight thousand five hundred a year but only half. The students are graduating for years. So then why not actually by five or six potential budget. So we're talking now. Two hundred and forty thousand dollars for.