<p>My child did not do on DC’s own either.</p>
<p>It’s b/c around here thousands of miles away from NE, nobody’s heard of BS. DC couldn’t have thought of applying. It was my idea and DC reluctantly agreed to ‘let’s try applying and see what happens. Let’s consider these opportunities. It’s okay if you decide not to go even after acceptance.’</p>
<p>I broke all good parenting rules hovering, and didn’t heed Exie’s advices. Well, I felt, if my 13 yr old could arrange interviews and flights, then DC doesn’t need BS nor college. DC would be starting a business.
Incidentally, my DH has never booked a flight either in his life. At work, he flies the ones booked for him and stays in the hotel wherever booked for him. I don’t. I book mine and get blamed wasting my ‘work’ time not taking advantage of the service that books the most inconvenient flight at the most expensive cost.
I arrange family vacations and pack my DH’s clothes/swim trunks since I want him to have those there.
I asked my neighbor who was going on a cruise where they are going and he said ‘I don’t know. My wife takes care of such things. I just make sure I take correct days off and not to go to work that day.’
So I figure my DH and I are not alone or perhaps there’re two men in the world who don’t know how to book a hotel.</p>
<p>I called myself an Executive Assistant in BS process. I signed DC up for SSAT and paid for it.
(Did DadwoclueChild pay for SSAT too on his own? My DC doesn’t have credit card nor any money. I don’t give allowance. There is no place to spend money on DC’s own since there’s no place DC can go spend money w/o me driving there. Suburb is so enabling. DC doesn’t have babysitting nor lawn mowing (snow shoveling at this time) job either.)</p>
<p>Anyway, I signed up SSAT, drove an hour DC there, and
DC took the test.
I bought the prep books and DC studied those a little reluctantly.
I made itineraries and we flew out to NE. I drove DC to the schools and
DC did the interviews unprepared.</p>
<p>I told DC, ‘Please please don’t say my Mom dragged me here.’ To which DC replied, ‘I’m not THAT stupid, mom.’</p>
<p>I showed the essay questions and
DC wrote them.
I scanned them and told email/upload those and
DC did. </p>
<p>After interviewing at the 2nd school during our trip when DC visited boarding schools for the first time in his life as well as being in NE - not counting NYC trip when he was one - DC said, ‘I want to come to this school.’ (and I went a silent ‘YES!’)</p>