College applications: What I've learned as a parent the second time around

DadTwoGirls
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:09:09 +0000

“She has an affordable and realistic list”

This exact sentence applied to us also. The second time around, I think that my second daughter had learned more from watching big sister apply to universities than any of the rest of us.

D2 had a very sensible list of very good, very affordable universities to apply to. She might have applied to one “super safety” which was not necessary, but otherwise it was simply a matter of deciding between four schools all of which were academically excellent, all of which were a good fit, and all of which were affordable.

D2 even knew how schools would decide who got preference on dorms, and made her decision and got her deposit money in early enough to get the dorm that she wanted.

All that we did was drive her from school to school, and arrange one tour during a break when tours were not supposed to be available (asking politely sometimes does help).