<p>Are you playing too big a role in your child's education? You'll need to take a hard look at yourself to answer that question, but you can also ask your child. The response might surprise you.</p>
<p>To gauge your participation in the college admissions process, consider the following questions. They'll help you determine whether you should get more involved, allow your child more independence, or stay the course.
<p>Post your scores and discuss. Here's how my parents scored:</p>
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Reevaluate Your Role: Consider talking to your child about your involvement and shifting more of the responsibility for college consideration and choice to your child.
<p>LOL I would have totally pegged myself for a helicopter parent and perhaps I am and just wasn’t honest with the questions but I think I was - and it told me I should get more involved! I do think some of the questions were skewed though.</p>
<p>Get More Involved: The level and nature of your involvement suggest that your child might benefit from more assistance. Consider being more proactive and seeking guidance or help from the college counselors in your child’s high school.</p>
<p>Question 7 is heavily weighted; I “took” the test, saying no to all of them except:</p>
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<p>and I “got” a ‘reevaluate your role and shift more responsibility onto the child’. Which makes sense; if you’re actually filling out the application and writing the application essays, you might as well go to the interviews, enroll in the college, take the classes as your child, get a degree under your child’s name, apply for your “first” job under your child’s name (sooner or later you’re going to have to kill your actual child to prevent any conflicts, so I would do it before this next step), get married using your child’s identity, and eventually be buried using the child’s name on your headstone.</p>
<p>Stay the Course: Your level of involvement seems to indicate a good balance between your child’s responsibilities and decisions, and your advice and guidance.</p>
<p>Wow. Mine is “get more involved.” Hysterical, because I’ve been accused in the past by mothers with daughters competing for the same schools as mine were, that I should be “less involved.” Hmmm. Can’t imagine why they said that.</p>
<p>So given how things turned out, I guess the moral of the story is, be ‘under-involved,’ whatever that definition is.</p>
<p>Uh oh, I answered yes to all but two, way too involved. Then again, he’s at his dream college now and very happy, so can it be that wrong to be overly involved?</p>
<p>I’m another “get more involved”. Of course, S applying to grad schools. I have a vague idea of his itinerary, but he won’t send flight schedules. He is spending a lot of time in airports. He probably met Pizzagirl</p>
<p>It looks to me like you basically have to write your kids essays and maybe take their SATs for them for them to get a “reevalutate your role” on this quiz. Some of the questions are sort of vague anyway. The one about discussing your child’s college plans with their GC without the kid around. To me, in most cases, that would automatically get a “re-evaluate your role.” Although I imaging there would be some instances when you have to discuss something with the GC without the kid around.</p>
<p>It is my bet that collegeboard wants the parent involved. That’s another voice pushing for multiple SAT exam retakes.</p>