How College Obsession Can Be a Force for Good | Barbara Connolly | TEDxHayesStreet

Barbara Connolly, is a private college consultant and founder of College Choice Counseling and TutorsCCC. In her talk Ms. Connolly investigates how college obsession, which took roots for her in a childhood experience, helped her children later to go to good colleges. Ms. Connolly examines how “helicopter parents”, with all the associated negatives, are actually rare, and involved parents, better described as “tow truck parents”, are the norm. Barbara Connolly, JD, CEP is a private college consultant in Birmingham, Michigan. She is the founder and director of College Choice Counseling and TutorsCCC with a team of expert counselors and tutors located throughout the U. S. and in Montreal, Canada.

Ms. Connolly is the author of College Admission Success. She is a monthly columnist for MediaNews Group which publishes her column on topics related to college in eight publications. She appears in local and national media to speak about college counseling and being a woman’s business founder.

Ms. Connolly is a lawyer, certified educational planner (CEP), a former admissions reader at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and a professional member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx