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[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]

I did not do #1, I did the rest.  And if by #2 you mean like arrange visits I did that.  But I did not micromanage college applications because I felt that if did that, my child was not ready to go to college.[/quote]

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