In thinking about this more, I’m wondering what experiences you think your kids missed during covid that would have made them more prepared for college. Did they not take trips or travel into a city where they would have learned how to go to a college visit alone? Did they not do sports or club activities that would have prepared them for college?
It just seems like my kids, who went to school before covid, had the same issues heading to college and they’d always gone to summer camps, traveled by air on their own, had to figure stuff out at hs. They still struggled when it came time for college.
It was fine. If they needed something they called me and we walked through it or they just did it themselves. I did take my 16 year old on college recruiting visits not because she couldn’t have flown and arranged transportation to the college on her own but because she wanted my opinion of the school and program too. Many kids travel to recruiting trips on their own. Sometimes she went off with teammates and I stayed in a hotel, other times I took the tour with her. I know my niece went to accepted students day on her own, but her parents had already seen the school.
I don’t think it is unusual for parents to help move kids in to the school, set up banking, look at freshman schedules, but then for trips after that for the students to go back to school on their own, pick out classes, buy books, etc. I don’t see that being different since covid.