Is this obsession healthy

MotherOfTwo
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:13:43 +0000

07DAD - With regard to advising your son about course selection and standardized test, your son goes to a prep school which presumably has knowledgeable and involved guidance counselors. For kids attending many public schools, the situation is a little different. Our high school does not provide adequate advice about which courses/standardized tests are needed for application to selective colleges. Unless a parent or student is keyed into this through information obtained from sources other than the school district, a student may find himself lacking in tests/courses that he should have taken when it comes time to apply to college. In this case, more parental involvement in some aspects of college preparation is needed, as the parent is filling in for what the guidance counselor at a preparatory school would do.