<p>Whatever process you use, make your kid stands in line at the post office with the envelope. If he doesn't turn around, when he hands it to the clerk, he knows that he is really the one who made the decision!</p>
<p>We did everything else last year: chart, a sophisticated ranking based on decision analysis, last minute visits, last minute phone calls, last minute consultations with teachers, coin toss till the wee hours, giving him our suggestions (based on what we sensed he was feeling),writing out a check but not sealing the envelope, voiding the check, writing another....we didn't know for sure until he had actually sealed it and handed it across the counter on May 1. Even then, he said he had butterflies in his stomach as he stood in line. Worked out though...and he definitely knows that he was the person who decided.</p>