Reply to Tell me your HS Senior is not ready for college, with saying your HS student is not ready for colleg

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Tell me your HS Senior is not ready for college, with saying your HS student is not ready for colleg"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll go first: My rising HS Senior is spending more time on X-box this summer than writing his common application personal essay and getting his activities list in order. My hair and face is turning blue trying to encourage him to have a good draft - 1.5 hours a day - so senior year can be a little less stressful & so he can focus on strong grades senior year. Whelp .. I’m backing off. Who’s next? [/quote]

My kid was a super procrastinator on all things college. And she really wanted to go! And had her sights set on a super selective spot. But she did nothing over the summer. And if I had tried to enforce “an hour and a half a day work on your essay“ it would have been a miserable failure. And she spent her senior year abroad on the other side of the planet. And she was in a really terrible host family situation through the end of October which is when her application for her most desired spot was due. And you know what? She got it done. And it was excellent. But it was only excellent because it was on her timeline and was her own voice and process. Trust your kid. I really do believe they will figure it out.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics