<p>I'm wondering if any of this is going on with you guys here. I think my mom may be a little too anxious over the college selection process (yes, I know it's a generally stressful process). Lately she's been incredibly afraid of whether every (I'm not exaggerating) academic decision I make will negatively affect my college prospects. A while ago she was freaking out (sort of, but she was really anxious about it) about my state standardized test score because I only scored proficient in the reading section. She really wanted me to retake the section (you can retake it if you so choose, even if you score proficient) because it's on my permanent record.</p>
<p>Are your parents feeling similarly about you? I'm also interested in how parents handled this time in their children's lives.</p>
<p>Yes and it’s annoying. I hate it, I would do better without them. I did great sophomore freshmen year. But as soon as junior year hits they want to be all hard blaming me for my little brother being bad and me for everything trying to kick me out the house saying im not going to college when I am etc.</p>
<p>My mom and grandmom don’t worry too much. I’m expected to get straight A’s and they just say that I can do better if I get a B. They’re really supportive for me though and have done anything I’ve asked of them in the college process, things are going pretty smoothly right now.</p>
<p>Mine don’t care as long as i get good grades. they focus more on my little sister 'cause she’s not doing as well as me when i was her age. Heh, my parents don’t even know exactly what i want to major in, what colleges i want to go to, and what APs are…They also don’t know what classes i’m taking right now…=.=</p>
<p>lol oddly no. My mom’s like “You’ll get into Brown and get $50,000 of merit aid. You’ll also get into Harvard and MIT without applying because they sent you college mail” except not as extremely incorrect</p>
<p>my parents care about ALL of the wrong things, sad to say. my mom has always freaked out about every little test/quiz/homework assignment, but when it came to me choosing which colleges i was going to apply to, it was basically like, ‘oh, you’re applying to colleges?’. lol, i wish i had some help there, from either of my parents -_-</p>
<p>My parents just let me do my own thing with grades. When it comes to applying for schools, though, I know my mom’s going to stick her unwanted two cents into EVERYTHING.</p>
<p>My parents don’t worry about any aspect of my school at all (except for the grades on the report card). I kind of wish they did though, so you’re lucky.</p>
<p>I know parents who did EVERYTHING for their kid in the college application process, like sign them up for standardized tests, help them with their applications, and file their FAFSA for them. I did pretty much all that stuff all by myself, without an ounce of help (except for the income/tax stuff on the FAFSA, of course) =/</p>
<p>My mother worries a lot about my academics. She micro manages my life. My father makes me sit down with him and study math/science if my grades are bad, but other than that, he doesn’t check up on me.</p>