<p>I may be a weird teenager for saying this…</p>
<p>…but in general–IN GENERAL–the parents are right. Or at least, my parents are right, and so are the parents of most of my friends. Since it’s ultimately the student’s life, of course the student should get the final say. However, I think parents should have almost as much of a role in the decision. After all, even disregarding whether or not they pay for college, parents know the student almost as well as the student knows him/herself, and parents have the added advantage of knowing much, much more about the world.</p>