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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just kidding.  Ha ha ha ha ha.[/quote]

OP, I was looking for the Holy Grail!

I'm sure there are some kids who do their college applications all by themselves, but not mine.

I tried and tried to let them figure out the process themselves. Their college guidance counselor warned "let your child take the lead." Ha ha ha ha ha.

If my kid took the lead, she'd still be sitting on my couch playing video games instead of getting ready to graduate from college right now!!!

I was hoping my other kids would be different from my oldest, but that was wishful thinking. (OP, I thought you might give me some tips!)

I waited as long as I could with my younger kids to see if they would show any initiative, but when they didn't, I started pushing, planning, scheduling college visits, etc.

I think PPs are right though, the cost of college has made parental intervention essential. Kids can't just apply to colleges that interest them. First, they have to find colleges we can afford, and then weed out the ones that don't interest them.

Essentially, the middle class is getting cut out of private colleges. In time colleges like NYU will be filled with the poor, very rich and foreigners who can pay full freight.

Now that wages for the middle class are not increasing (we have less buying power than we had a decade ago), there's little hope for middle class kids to attend high-priced prestigious private colleges. And the public universities are getting more and more selective because more kids are applying because they are often the only affordable option!

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