| Best Christmas - look beyond college
Perhaps the best, most subtle approach to inspire effort in the college process is to focus beyond college to that first job or apartment. This transforms the college app process into a larger continuum, decreasing stress of the short-term immediate, but wisely giving the long view. A calm long-term approach is more productive then a panicky teen flipping out over college app process.
This is really useful if your child is still of the "my parent wants me to study for SAT; therefore its the last thing I'd spend my time on." And then there is the old,"if you only score your way into to the local CC, you get to live with me. If you score your way to an good out of area school, you get to leave your evil parent behind."
Perhaps white goods or kitchen things clearly intended for thier own first post-college home. (plus some fun goofy stuff.)
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