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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD woke me up sobbing during the night last night. Too much stress even though half her applications are in. She had been a straight A student until this quarter where she is taking ridiculously hard classes. It will help when fall sports are over too. I hate that she is wishing away her senior year, but she is.[/quote]

We must be living parallel lives except I'm normally about to go to bed when the sobbing meltdowns occur and things that are due need to be done. I'm out of steam too and I am only doing word count and grammar type editing. Found a friend to do the big essay review earlier so that DD would actually listen to feedback and stay rational. A couple of these final supplemental essays have ended up being words that meet the word count and going from point A to point B, not particularly noteworthy and creative but it is DDs experience/thoughts in 250 words or less. DD has prioritized college apps over school but sports take time which all combine and take a big emotional, mental and physical toll as grades, health, performance dip/decline.

Hang in there as it is near the end. I keep telling DD that there are tons of schools out there and ultimately she can be successful but will have to come from her regardless of where she goes.

For those in the final stretch, HELP go over each individual school's checklist of required forms, scores, dates etc. Depending on how many schools are on the list or being added/subtracted at the last minute, your kid may miss something critical and basic because they are so focused on the essay part they miss something like an SAT that needed to be formally sent vs self-reported or an extra financial/merit award interest form that may needed that is specific for that school. That was our discovery just last night as I was going over CSS vs other award form requirements while DD was at sports and saw a school needed SATs from College Board in the next 7 days and DD thought it was just a self-report... If you are helping paying the application fee, don't miss something simple on the admin side in the rush.[/quote]

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