![]() ![]() And it might not change the outcome if you let them achieve the grand age of 15 before the pressure mounts. If you wait until the much more proximate sophomore year in high school, you’ll allow your child to start to figure out who she or he really is, and what he or she wants to study and where he or she wants to live for those very formative undergraduate years. If parents start thinking about where their kids should attend college before those kids have reached 9th grade, they are doing a disservice to themselves, their children, and their children’s high school education. ![]() To everyone in the vast middle: I wish you all luck and say for now, you will be fine. (And there are high schools with administrators who care.) The truly impoverished also get a big leg up if they attend a high school that cares about its students enough to become proficient in the ways of financial aid applications. The 1% throws its entitlements around – personal letters of reference that actually refer to a student’s character and personality don’t matter as much as generic letters by billionaire patrons, written by their executive assistants. In the final analysis, so much comes down to influence and money. The gauntlet is no fun, the referendum on one’s young life is no fair, and by the way, nothing about it is fair. (I’m not including any that have come from my pen.) Yes, it’s a grueling experience. Anyway, there have been so many articles about the college application process. My super power seems to be to state what we (not all of us, but many of us) are thinking. ![]()
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