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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's probably a discussion about this somewhere but I can't find it.  As a parent did you do any early college research to help jumpstart your DC's search? Probably from reading this board I've come across a few schools that IMO might be of interest to DC. Is it worth offering up a few to suggest visiting their website or doing research on their own as a way to begin to dip their toes in.

I'm not sure how this process starts in a way that isn't handing a kid the Fiske guide or something and saying good luck.  Any advice or BTDT on how your student geared up in exploring schools?[/quote]

This is going to 100% depend on your kid.  My kids did not really like to do college website research up front.  They were willing to participate in the college process events put on by their school, attend college fairs mentioned by the school and meet with college reps that visited the schools.  I used the College Board website (and trust me it’s a love/hate relationship with how we feel about the College Board) to help spark initial ideas and conversation https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-search. What size school, LAC or not, what geographic region, rural urban or suburban, was being able to continue their high school activities important to them, what about Greek Liffe?  We also had a conversation about budget/cost.   Also, my didn’t want every conversation to be about college so we had an agreed upon timeframe where we discussed anything related to college logistics or process.  With one of my kids when we where in the thick of college applications senior year we made an outing of it - breakfast at x place and they had their laptop.[/quote]

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