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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friend says her daughter really does want to attend a four-year, but struggled to narrow down a list and kept procrastinating. She didn’t ask for help, pushed things off, and then felt too lazy to get through essays. Friend also says the bigger issue is that the kid is generally very, very lazy, which they’re trying to figure out.

She’s a solid student —  around a 3.8UW / ~4.2 W, SAT 1500, with all honors/7 APs, decent but not standout ECs. SLACS seem appealing to her, so Reed is a great option. She’s also a quite introverted kid. Major is Econ.[/quote]

A kid with this profile who put off applying until this late probably doesn't want to leave home.  That needs to be solved for. The inability to apply coupled with that GPA and SAT is pretty telling.[/quote]

Honestly many kids I know would be in this situation had the parents not been heavily involved. My own kid is one of them and going to HYP. It’s an intimidating, complicated, stressful process and parents do a huge amount now. And I speak as someone who did her own apps entirely independently a generation ago.[/quote]

Absolutely. My son has anxiety, inattentive ADHD and decision paralysis and if I hadn't kept on top of deadlines, he would have missed most of them. Or all of them. He's at a T50 now, doing reasonably well.

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