Webinars & Workshops

Your enthusiasm and participation made the event a tremendous success. Together, we explored invaluable insights on scholarship applications – from strategic timing and trusted resources to crafting compelling applications and avoiding scams.

Join Jodi Glou, President of Custom College Consulting, who will guide college-bound families through the often confusing financial aid process. This first of a three-part series will also highlight the changes coming to FAFSA and how it will affect you.

Now that you have submitted your Financial Aid forms, what should you do next? Part Two of Custom College Consulting’s three-part financial aid series focuses on important topics that will help to answer this question, including:   

• Reviewing & Interpreting Award Packages
• Calculating the Net Price for College
• Appeals
• So Much More!!!

If you missed “The Next Step in Dymystifying Financial Aid for College,” you can access a recording of it today.

It was a pleasure presenting at Wootton High School's November PTSA Meeting.

This webinar's topic, “Helping Underclassman Plan for College,”  included a Q&A session and discuss important subjects, including: 

* Enhancing the Student Profile

* Course Rigor

* Community Service

* Extracurriculars

* Part-time Jobs

* Foreign Language

* Summer Opportunities

* Pre-College Testing 

Thank you to Wootton High School’s faculty, staff, and PTSA for making last night’s college fair such a success. 

It was so wonderful to meet so many bright and talented young people. I am very appreciative for the opportunity to participate in such a valuable event. 

If you weren’t able to attend and you know a student who may need help with their college planning journey, you can contact me directly at jglou@custom-college.com.

Thank you Thomas S. Wootton High School PTSA for the opportunity to present "Beginning to Build Critical 'Adulting' Skills in High School" last week. 

I enjoyed engaging with so many parents alongside my colleague, Andrea Malkin Brenner, creator of Talking College Card Deck and Co-author of "How to College."  AMBrenner, LLC https://www.facebook.com/ambrennerllc/

If you are the parent of a high schooler with ADD or ADHD, selecting a college is mystifying.  You may wonder if you should begin with your local community college or if the goal of a traditional academic community is a possibility?

Join Allison Schaberg from the Fort Bend ADDA - Southern Region as she welcomes IEC and Owner of Custom College Consulting, Jodi Glou, who will demystify our thoughts about college applications for the family with a child with learning challenges.

If you are the parent of a high schooler it is NOT too early to help prepare them to thrive in college. Don't miss this informative webinar designed to provide you with the skills and steps necessary for this life-changing transition.

This 90-minute webinar includes:

• Age-appropriate conversations to have with your high school students before they leave for college
• Tips for teaching important life skills required of college-bound students including independent decision-making and budgeting time and money
• Lists for what 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students should master each year to succeed both inside and outside of the college classroom so that they learn gradually
• Practical advice to transition from parents of high school "adolescents" to parents of college "young adults"

This webinar was led by Andrea Malkin Brenner, PhD, former college professor and administrator and author of How To College: What to Know Before You Go (and When You're There), and Jodi L.G. Glou, M.A. former college professor and President of Custom College Consulting.

Learn How to Help Your High School Senior Transition to Life in College

About this Event

This webinar discussed how  parents of recent high school graduates could help them to thrive in college. This informative webinar provided skills and steps necessary for this life-changing transition inlcuding:

• Critical conversations to have before they head off to college
• Lists of what your first-year student really needs to know to succeed both inside and outside of the college classroom
• Tips for teaching important life skills required of college students including budgeting, asking for help, and resiliency
• Practical advice to transition from parents of high school "adolescents" to parents of college "young adults"

This webinar was conducted alongside Jed Applerouth of Applerouth Tutoring Serivces at the 2021 HECA Conference. It provided an overview of how the brain works, both for neurodiverse and neurotypical students. Participants gained insight into preparing neurodiverse students for the college application process. In addition, panelists will share testing-taking strategies, insights into trends in college admission and standardized testing, and tips on how to help students with learning differences develop executive functioning skills. The session also explored college “fit” for the neurodiverse population and how to communicate effectively with students and their families.

The transition from high school to college mystifies many students and their parents. In this workshop, co-presenters Jodi Glou of Custom College Consulting and Andrea Malkin Brenner, Author of How to College, provided information that IECs can implement in discussions with clients and their families. Attendees learned about areas including, but not limited to: 

•  Common first-year pitfalls 
• Defining the roles of parents, students, and the college itself
• Academic differences between high school and college
• Resilience after set-backs for the student
•  Learning to embrace the college "you"
• Adulting skills needed for college success