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[quote=Anonymous]My son didn't refuse to talk about college at that age, but his notions of he thought he wanted in a college were so....odd that the conversations weren't very useful. So I thought about the type of environment that might be best for him and researched schools to find ones that might be affordable for us and that looked like safeties/matches/reaches for a kid with his stats. I ended up with a list of about 30 schools, which I gave to him, along with the Fiske Guide and told him to read about them and let me know what he thought. He didn't read about them. So I planned a trip to one of the safeties, where we attended a presentation and took a tour. That finally elicited some default feedback. I took that feedback, trimmed the list, and planned a road trip visiting 5 schools. We spent a week in the car together and visited schools, he sat in on classes, we talked about what we had seen, compared and contrasted, etc. That trip was fun and it helped us (me) narrow the list further.

IOW, I managed the entire selection process. But by the time  we had a list of 9 schools, he had warmed up to the topic, finally felt like he had a real sense of what college might be like, and he had a sense of the type of place he liked best. He was happy with the list I had drawn up, thought they were all good options. He was ready by then to take the reins and managed the application process with only minimal assistance from me.

Now he's committed to one of those schools and really excited about it.[/quote]

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