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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We applied early and knew by the end of Nov.  I don’t understand why students wait.  Do you?[/quote]

“We applied early”?

Did you apply to college too? [/quote]

As in family.  Parents are paying the tuition.[/quote]

Yeah, of course they are. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s the kid’s process and the kid’s life.

But you know — you’ve got OP up there stressing about her kids’ applications seemingly more than they are.[/quote]

Oh give it a rest.  Parents can be just as invested (or not, in your case) whether they like to or not.  To each their own.  [/quote]

They can. But it doesn’t make it healthy.

I’m so happy my parents didn’t participate in my application process at all.

[b]I plan to stay out of my kid’s process.[/b][/quote]

LOL. Wait til your smartest kid decides he wants to study anthropology at Florida Gulf Coast University because he intends to get buff & tan & bang a bunch of babes.[/quote]
“Oh and by the way, FGCU costs $100,000/yr, so better delay that retirement, dad.”

Not being involved “at all” in the college application process is like buying a house without even seeing a picture of it. When 18 year olds can again afford college on the proceeds of a summer job, parents will happily duck out of the picture. [/quote]

I was class of 2009 for college. It was expensive.

My parents trusted my college counselor and I to handle it. [/quote]

and [i]me[/i].

My college counselor and me.

Go eat a praise sandwich, Millennial. 
You have no power here. 
[/quote]

Go obsess over your kid’s college application, while you talk about how “we’re applying to college.” [/quote]

I am the poster who said, "I'm so up in my kid's process I'm wearing it as a hat."

:mrgreen:

We're having fun with it. I'm a widow and single parent, and my kids and I are ride or die. We're a team. We're happy to be alive and on the roller coaster.

Together.

The cool thing about boundaries isn't that they form us into little atomized, self-contained units: It's that they allow us to heal and grow and thrive as individuals while [i]also[/i] connecting deeply to others through mutually-supportive shared experiences.

Boundaries aren't cool bc they separate us: It's that they make the healthy "we" possible.

So OF COURSE this process is one we're engaged in together. We all need support and guidance. Some people pay for support; some people find it at school and in their communities; and some people are supported by their families. Some are lucky enough to enjoy a combination.

"We" have separate lives and experiences -- and also go through the rough patches together, and ride the highs together.

And wait -- together.

Also, I'm pretty sure it's appropriate to say "we" since I fully wrote at least 2/3 of their essays on their behalf (gpt did the rest.)

j/k! just funny to see you clench like that lol

But genuinely: I feel sad for those who don't get to have the experience of being a highly-invested, deeply-committed member of another person's team. Or their beloved child's team -- right as they prepare for a really big, significant life transition. It's really pretty great -- though the waiting isssss sooooo lonnnnggggggggggggggg

I love that my kids are fully independent humans who know that they are never, ever in this alone.

We are 10000% a team. 100000% a "we." 
And not only do they agree, but they'd wear it on a t-shirt lol.

Ride or die!

Gonna go log back into my kid's portals and refresh for a while. Just for funsies.

Enjoy your weird sense of superiority about being uninvolved while you... troll the college forums on DCUM at noon on a Wednesday.

* LIKE. A. HAT.

lol
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Only on DCUM are the choices completely and utterly up your child’s business or uninvolved. [/quote]

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