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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the level of my involvement:
1. I created one Google doc that had the due dates and application requirements for the schools they were applying to.
2. I worked out the schedule and drove them to campus visits.
3. I did the FAFSA form (it's really hard for a kid to do that--so much of it is really about your finances.)
4. I paid for the SAT registration.
5. I proofread their essays. Proofread as in not editing--only just being a second pair of eyes to spot typos or a "there vs. their" type error. The same thing my DH and I do for each other when writing more significant things for work.
That's it. Everything else was on them. 
I don't think folks are doing kids any favors with excessive help, because then you just set them up to have a particularly hard crash come freshman year at college.[/quote]

That's a lot, especially #1.

I did none of this at all.  And all of my kids got into top colleges.[/quote]

Your kids must have attended private schools.[/quote]

Public.

If your kid is capable of meeting deadlines for their high school classes and understanding what's expected in them, surely they're capable of creating their own spreadsheets to keep track of college application deadlines and requirements.

And we didn't fill out a FASFA because our kids didn't need or qualify for aid. 
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