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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a counselor. This process can be overwhelming, even for students with strong EF skills. I'm surprised parents leave it all to their 17 year old students to navigate. They need an adult to help guide them, whether that is a parent, counselor or other role model. [/quote]

Obviously, parents of kids with known executive function problems need to adjust for that. Executive function disability is the hidden catastrophe of our time.

For kids who are reasonably well-organized: I think the best approach here is that parents who understand the FAFSA process should fill the financial aid forms on their own, proactively, and maybe set the state flagship and a non-selective state school as the default recipients, because dealing with FAFSA firms is really the parents’ job.

And I think it’s fair for parents who can afford to send their kids to small, non-selective private schools, “Would you like us to send a financial aid application to [non-selective private school] as a backup?”

Getting financial aid forms in early might be critical to helping kids recover and avoid having an involuntary gap year.

But students with OK executive function ought to take responsibility for sending in the actual admissions applications themselves, because that’s a great college readiness screening. College is all about reading, preparing for tests and meeting administrative deadlines on your own. If kids really can’t do that, parents should address the organization problems before pushing the kids into college.

If kids notice they’re off track Dec. 31 and shift to applying to schools with later deadlines, maybe that means they can get their act together. But, if they really want to go to college, know about schools with late deadlines and can’t meet the late deadlines, that’s a bad sign.

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