Reality sets in and application is unfinished

mom2collegekids
Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:46:09 +0000

*Every year – absolutely EVERY year in April – we see a kid here who has only applied to highly selective schools and learns, horribly, that none of those schools offered admission. The student (usually some talented, marvelous kid) is then scrambling around to learn what school has rolling admissions and still has space available in May. …
but, please, parents and students, go ahead and nurture and finish that one application that gets you into a suitable but not uber selective school. Please! *

This is such a good reminder - especially since many of those safety schools have super EZ apps - often no essays or teacher recs are needed.

I’ve known parents (with kids’ permission) to do those EZ apps for their overwhelmed kids, since those apps literally take like 5 -15 minutes.