Tell me your HS Senior is not ready for college, with saying your HS student is not ready for colleg

[Anonymous]

I’ll go first: My rising HS Senior is spending more time on X-box this summer than writing his common application personal essay and getting his activities list in order. My hair and face is turning blue trying to encourage him to have a good draft - 1.5 hours a day - so senior year can be a little less stressful & so he can focus on strong grades senior year. Whelp .. I’m backing off. Who’s next?

[Anonymous]

Typos in title (typing on iPhone) - without saying
You know what I mean ..

[Anonymous]

Procrastination... very common

[Anonymous]

Back off, mom. There’s plenty of time to do this when school starts back up, and the school counselors will help him through it. There’s no reason to be obsessing over this at this point.

[Anonymous]

School counselors of public high schools will have close to 1,000 seniors, you’re kidding right ?

[Anonymous]

What if we had a nice post about why we think our kids are ready.

Like showing independence and responsibility at home?

Making good decisions about work/play balance.

Etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back off, mom. There’s plenty of time to do this when school starts back up, and the school counselors will help him through it. There’s no reason to be obsessing over this at this point.

Counselors will not help. Offer incentives to him over the summer to get it done. Too stressful to do once school starts.

[Anonymous]

No rising hs senior is or should be ready for college. They have another year of school.

Back off your kid, OP. You think you’re being cute with your post. Your anxiety and stress around controlling your kid are not attractive, and you’re here looking for validation with other controlling parents.

[Anonymous]

This is why we used an essay consultant. They set up zoom appointments so each draft had to be done by then. Both kids were done by mid August without me nagging them. She also helped with the EC section. Applications started going out in September, acceptance in hand by mid December.

[Anonymous]

This is why we hired a consultant for our son four years ago to help with applications. He had to be accountable to someone, and we don't have to nag. School counselors don't have the same impact. We probably won't need to do this for our much younger daughter. Boys' frontal lobes develop at a slower pace. As a rising college senior now, he is just now showing real signs of maturity. Academically he has always been fine...I am talking about taking initiative to plan ahead, save money, etc. FWIW, he got into a top 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why we hired a consultant for our son four years ago to help with applications. He had to be accountable to someone, and we don't have to nag. School counselors don't have the same impact. We probably won't need to do this for our much younger daughter. Boys' frontal lobes develop at a slower pace. As a rising college senior now, he is just now showing real signs of maturity. Academically he has always been fine...I am talking about taking initiative to plan ahead, save money, etc. FWIW, he got into a top 20.

Okay. Tell me you are wealthy without telling me you’re wealthy.

[Anonymous]

Let him enjoy his summer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why we used an essay consultant. They set up zoom appointments so each draft had to be done by then. Both kids were done by mid August without me nagging them. She also helped with the EC section. Applications started going out in September, acceptance in hand by mid December.

Yep can't go wrong with a decent consultant. We're already putting out feelers to find the right one for rising junior. A nagging mom whose "hair and face is going blue" (?) really cannot compare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why we hired a consultant for our son four years ago to help with applications. He had to be accountable to someone, and we don't have to nag. School counselors don't have the same impact. We probably won't need to do this for our much younger daughter. Boys' frontal lobes develop at a slower pace. As a rising college senior now, he is just now showing real signs of maturity. Academically he has always been fine...I am talking about taking initiative to plan ahead, save money, etc. FWIW, he got into a top 20.

Okay. Tell me you are wealthy without telling me you’re wealthy.

We are comfortable, but we don't consider ourselves. We just have different priorities. My car is 9 years old, and my husband's is 11 years old. We have retirement savings, but won't be owning more than one home. I guess if you define that as wealthy, so be it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll go first: My rising HS Senior is spending more time on X-box this summer than writing his common application personal essay and getting his activities list in order. My hair and face is turning blue trying to encourage him to have a good draft - 1.5 hours a day - so senior year can be a little less stressful & so he can focus on strong grades senior year. Whelp .. I’m backing off. Who’s next?

Uh, it’s summer. Yeah back off. Wow.