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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter did not take control at all. She is normally a pretty independent student, and has been able to handle high school, ECs and everything else on her own with little parental involvement, but for some reason, she "choked" when it came to college applications and deadlines.

She is now regretful because some of the schools she was rejected to, she knows she did not really apply herself and wonders what kind of difference she could have made if she did. And also, other schools that she never applied to because she didn't make deadlines.

She was accepted into five good schools though, but that was more because her parents took charge, and less to do with her drive.

"Senioritis" seemed like a silly term to me until I actually experienced it with my student. [/quote]
This was similar to our experience.  I tried to let DD "be the driver", hounded her to do her essays, get her SATs where she wanted them and keep up her grades.  I did much more of the college box-checking, deadline-keeping than I ever imaged that I would.  But I feel together we did the very minimum required and she only go into 3 decent but safety-ish school.  I wasn't willing to do more but she could have done a lot more to better position herself for college applications/acceptances.  Now DD is saying what she should have done to get where she wanted to go. It's prettying disappointing.  Her older sister, on the other hand, was over the moon at this time 2 years ago. [/quote]

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