From One Parent to Another: Choosing the 'Right' School Venice CA

From One Parent to Another: Choosing the Right School

They say hindsight is 20/20. In this series, you can find out what other parents learned while going through the process of finding, selecting, and paying for their student's education!

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""The search process is wonderfully haphazard and unpredictable, and students can make very good choices for what seem (to their parents) like all the wrong reasons. Having narrowed the field to two top choices, our daughter applied Early Decision to the one in the mountains as opposed to the one on the prairie I was certain suited her better. In fact, it was an excellent choice. Our second child, worn out by the exhaustive search we’d undertaken with our first, refused to visit any colleges at all. He confined himself to reading college catalogs and to e-mailing instructors and current students with questions,"" remembers a college-professor mom who is now braced for the search for graduate schools.

Linda, a super-organized college employee with terrific sons lamented, ""What I thought was going to be a new and exciting experience for our family turned out to be two long, tedious, dragged-out, stressful years. For each of our three sons, everything was done at the last minute and decisions were made at the very last date acceptable. We couldn’t even discuss schools during their junior years. The boys were too busy with sports, practices, and friends. When they did get a day or weekend off, t...

Author: Amy Ambler

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