@CallMeEmma I am to have to agree with Emma here. I know for a fact in the 9-10 months before we kicked D19 off to college that if we told her to do something she definitely didn’t want to do it. Actually it made her not want to do said activity. And it was small stuff. Hang up those clothes. Put that away. It got to the point that I was totally ready to drive her to college in the middle of the Summer.
In the end good kids will get the work done by the deadlines. The only thing you need to worry about are colleges that have rolling admissions. Sometimes that merit is first come first serve.