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[quote=Anonymous]I was the college applications parent in our house. For kid 1, I said to DH my kid’s junior year, SLAC X would be perfect for our kid. Fit, social atmosphere, academics, specific ECs.  I can see them doing really well there.  I asked my kid to put it on the list when we did visits nearby. And besides that, I zipped it and let the process play out.  And the kid chose that school themselves.

For kid 2, exact same deal. Except, she’s very practical, looked at the Ed numbers and picked the school I loved for ED, without my ever saying it was my preference.

Both kids love their colleges, feel at home there, are in excellent academic programs in their field and have said they made the exact right decision for them.

It feels like I could have saved a lot of time and effort by just telling them where they were going junior year.  :)  Then again, there is a lot of value in the process, and making your kid do the work and make the choice, so that they have some psychological skin in the game, and can’t just blame mom if it doesn’t work out.

That said— nailed it! (More like, I know my kids and I did the research). [/quote]

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