| If your child is a 3 sport varsity athlete (or musician, dancer, science researcher etc.), with a multiple-AP class schedule, he/she will not have time to deal with the clerical details of ten applications and scholarship forms and recruiting calls. Most top student/athletes have had overloaded schedules since 9th grade.
(Practice til 6pm, dinner & shower, homework begins at 7:30 ends at 1 or 2 a.m., up at 6:30 am. Weekend meets last from early morning til 7pm with travel. Sunday is sleep until noon to survive the week's deprivation, then homework all day and evening.) Rarely any relief until a holiday, then there is still practice for the season's sport.
For this type of student, help is essential so he/she can maintain GPA, health, sports performance and sanity. As colleges pile on more and more essays, the student's schedule is severely stressed with these demands. After working at such an intense pitch, some clerical help from parents can go a long way in aiding a positive outcome. Just keeping tabs on the school's tasks is a part time job (complete transcripts, recs sent, mid-year& final reports) for those of us with less-than-thorough GCs. |