TPP 133: College Admissions Expert Marisa Meddin on Application Strategies for Atypical Students
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Why is it important for parents to be armed with college admissions information?
I do it for the parents because I believe that when the parents are armed to have all the information, they're then best equipped to help their kids. Ду the work, бі атономос, ан суксід.
Welcome to Tilled Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and if your child is in middle school or high school and you know that going to college or university is in the cards down the road, this is a must-listen to episode. My guest is Marissa Medin, the founder of Talk College to Me, a resource for parents who want to help their children become the best version of themselves. Marissa's goal is to help parents navigate the college admissions process in a way that is fun and easy. As a consultant, she helps parents know how to best help their child find the right college or university and have the best chances of getting accepted to that school.
So earlier this year I did an episode on how to support kids through the high school to college transition with Elizabeth Hamblett. And by the way, that's a great episode. If you haven't heard it yet, you can find it at tiltparenting.com slash session eighty-nine. But this episode kind of backs the truck up a little bit and focuses more on how our kids can best set themselves up for identifying and getting into colleges and universities that will work for them. And just a little spoiler alert, Marissa believes that a student's differently wiredness can actually serve as an advantage on college applications. But before I get to that, if you get value out of this podcast and conversations like my one today with Marissa, please consider signing up to support the show and help me cover the costs of production.
Just sign up at patreon.com slash tiltparenting. You can also find the link on any of the show notes pages for the podcast over on the Tilt Parenting website. Thanks so much for considering and now let's get to my conversation with Marissa. Hey Marissa, welcome to the podcast.
Hey Debbie, thank you so much for having me. Excited to be here.
This is an interesting topic for our listeners. We have done one episode having to do with college, and in that we covered the high school to college transition, and we actually had an expert on who works with students to help manage that transition and kind of the anxieties and how to set yourself up for success. But today I'm really excited because we're going to be talking about earlier in that process and how to go through that application process with a specific eye towards differently wired kids and what's unique for them. throughout this journey. So before we get into that, just take a few minutes to introduce yourself and tell us about the work that you do in the world.
Yeah, absolutely. And I love that you've covered the the transition there already. So we're taking a step back and kind of filling in the blanks for everybody. So As every said, my name is Marissa Medin. I am the founder of Talk College to Me. So my number one goal when I started this adventure was to help parents specifically. Um, I know there's a lot of people out there helping the kids, but my goal is to really help the parents help their kids throughout their whole time in high school to best prepare for the college application process. And then to actually fill out those college applications. So ultimately all of the parents can help their kids have the very best chances of getting accepted to the schools that are right for them.
And I say throughout high school not to Um, you know, I I still think kids should be kids and they shouldn't live their life. Just to do things for college, but really to inspire parents to help their kids. find the right path and find the right activities that are unique to them and that they're really excited about and that make them stand out for who they really are. And to find the schools that, you know, it may be an Ivy League school or it may be somewhere totally different, but to find the schools that are really, really the right fit for the kid because that's gonna set them up for
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