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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow I wish my parents were as helpful as you all were when I was applying to undergrad back in '10. Neither of my parents went to college so I had absolutely no help in applying (even my counselor was of little help) but I ended up getting into 7 of the 8 schools I applied to. I couldn't imagine not taking charge. I know that you are all afraid of your kids not getting into good schools but perhaps in the future you should just let them figure it out on their own. [/quote]

I was like you when I applied to college. My parents were near alliterate so it was all up to me. I was driven, organized, and tried my best to get into a great school. But for my DD, it is completely different. She works reasonably hard but never has been driven... Applying to college is too big an issue to let her figure it out. Before and during the application process, I asked several people at workplace and they all helped their kids. Actually, what their kids did were writing the essays, selected their dream schools, and requested transcripts and recommendation letters. Parents did the rest - reminding them of the deadline, fill out the financial forms, selecting the safety schools, and submitting the testing scores.

[b]In my opinion, the current college application process is way too complex to leave it to a 17/18 year old.[/b][/quote]

I absolutely agree with this.

The college application process seems to have gotten much more involved than it was when I did it many moons ago. There are no safety schools anymore so students are applying to more and more schools just to make sure they have someplace to go next year. Kids are also much busier now with jobs, AP courses and/or sports that have them coming home at 8 pm and getting to bed in the wee hours of the morning after studying and completing homework. My afterschool routine was hanging out with my friends. And when college app time came around, it took me all of 45 minutes to complete the application for my safety school. That was it. Just one application. The hardest part of the entire ordeal was getting a stamp and envelope to mail it in.

Kids today are driven much too hard and have too much on their plates to leave such a complex, important job up to them alone.

However, I do wish my son had been much more motivated.[/quote]

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