Help with an overbearing parent

ADad
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:33:18 +0000

Well, DS wanted school X with all his heart after visiting it (and some other schools) the spring of his junior year.

We encouraged him to apply to other places. He applied to seven others, more or less willingly. We visited all but one of those seven others, at considerable expense and inconvenience in some cases.

He was admitted in October to school X, which is rolling.

He eventually was admitted to six, and waitlisted for one, of the others.

He chose school X.

Maybe all of that extra effort and expense was worthwhile. Frankly, though, I doubt it. As far as he was concerned, imho, the college process was over once he got in to college X.

YMMV.