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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Agree.

And I can’t believe everyone is blaming ADHD.  Teens can absolutely be lazy, without ADHD.  It’s also possible to get As in hard classes but be lazy in other areas. This describes a lot of teens.  I guess no one is allowed to be lazy anymore without it excusing it with a mental health diagnosis [/quote]

There is no such thing as SO LAZY you miss college admissions deadlines. Come on. This is on the parents. No parent I know, these days, leaves it entirely up to the kid to apply. It's a monumental task, unless you're applying to 3 schools that don't ask for essays.

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And where, pray tell, is the government task force that informs all parents that times have changed? People who did this for themselves in the 80s and 90s often quite reasonably assume their children can do it for themselves today. There’s no good reason for it to have become so insanely complicated. [/quote]

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