College 4 ALL

Welcome back to College4All, the podcast where we keep moving forward and upward through the college journey — together, one real conversation at a time. I'm your host, Anna Maria Vaccaro, college counselor, and your guide through this whole beautiful, overwhelming, exciting process.Today's episode has a different kind of energy because we are not in a studio. We are not on a Zoom screen. We are sitting down inside the student union at John Carroll University, which means you are going to hear the real soundtrack of campus life — footsteps, the espresso machine, students laughing between classes, the buzz of people actually living the experience we keep talking about. This is college, unfiltered.And today we are not talking to one student — we're talking to two. A pair of Blue Streaks who agreed to sit down with me and share what life actually looks like at a small Jesuit university just outside Cleveland. We're going to dig into the academics, the community, the Jesuit identity that some of you already know from your high school, the size of classes, the relationships with professors, the social scene, the athletics, the internships, and that classic question we always come back to — what do you wish you had known senior year of high school?If you are looking at smaller schools, faith-based schools, Jesuit schools, or you just want to know what college life looks like beyond the big names everyone is shouting about — this episode is for you.Two students. One student union. A whole lot of honesty.Let's get into it. This is College4All.

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