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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought it was supposed to be junior year....until we went through senior year.  For my kid -- and pretty much all of their friends -- the schedule was nearly or just as demanding in terms of school work.  But adding both the time and stress of dealing with college applications just made clear how they had been working to their edge before, and adding that one additional thing just made it crazy.

My advice: urge them to do as much as humanly possible in terms of essays and supplemental essays and everything else over the summer.  And then still expect a hard, stress-filled Fall semester (and a stress-filled Spring one until they hear from their top choice schools)[/quote]

Agree with this. The one thing that made the end of senior year easier was knowing that AP and IB exam scores weren’t all that important. Yes, they would determine college credit, but they wouldn’t make or break college admissions.

I felt bad many times during my son’s senior year for all the time I spent reassuring him that the pain of junior year would be the ‘worst’ and senior year would be easier, and then it wasn’t. He came through it fine, but I know I misled him.

And agree 100% about encouraging work on the application during the summer to make things easier in the fall. [/quote]

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