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[quote=Anonymous]One thing you may notice as your kids hit junior year of HS, is that they don’t have a helluva lot of time to research colleges, given all the other things they are doing.  Basically, I researched to develop a long short list based on my kid’s specifications/interests and I made sure it included a range of different environments and levels of selectivity.  We talked through them all and she crossed out any she wasn’t interested in and told me which she definitely wanted to visit.  I then handled logistics, including a few schools that didn’t make either list (i.e. NO or YES) but were located near or between YES schools.  I also decided (more for self-preservation than anything else) that we wouldn’t do more than one school per day.

I also explained the morass of early options and what difference they make, proposed a kind of two-step process (with how many schools she’d apply to determined by what happened in the early round), and talked through timing of standardized tests.  529 was fully funded, so the only financial discussion was that it cost didn’t have to be a voting issue.  DD did all the work of applying (and her school had a structure that kept her on task and on time) and chose where to apply early, as well as to commit to her EA school and forego other other apps.

I guess I looked at it as an informed consent scenario — i.e. my job was to put her in a position to make a rational, well-informed choice.[/quote]

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