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[quote=Anonymous]1.  Letters of recommendation - confirm he has asked teachers and if not email now
2.  the "college list" is created differently by everyone so you do what you can handle.  We were not a spreadsheet family, we talked about the school my dd wanted most to go to (superreach) and then went from there figuring out schools that were also more solidly realistic.  My dd was also super busy with school and with getting ready to leave home and spend senior year abroad so we really didn't have much time, it meant I was a little more involved than I might have been in making sure we did some school visits but since I was the one driving the car that was fine with me.  In the end we had a list of 7 schools I think and that was plenty.  Honestly my dd was only REALLY interested in one school, the others were ones I suggested based on what I knew she was looking for and then she visited them to get a sense of how much she liked it.
3.  Once the Common App opens your ds should just start inputting all the info, much of it is busy work but it does take some time and a bit of strategic thinking when you get to the part where you list and describe activities/honors.
4  Get all the essay prompts pulled together.  There is one main Common App essay and then many schools have their own supplemental essays, sometimes a bunch of them.  Get them pulled in to one document so he can work on them when he has time.

You can do it!  If it eases your mind my dd left in July before her senior year to go abroad and was in a highly unstable situation for the next 4 months, she still managed to get her application pulled together nicely.  The common app makes it pretty easy.  And regular decision applications don't go in until Jan 1 I think so you have plenty of time to figure out where he wants to apply if he just has no idea at this point.  Good luck![/quote]

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