Second time around for us was physically more demanding as D is a performing artist and all her schools were auditioned base so there was much to plan. I wasn’t being over involved, just appropriately so as there was no way for her to book airlines and hotels and check travel schedules with work, etc. There was a lot of that (like at least 10 trips - 6 or 7 straight weekends which was both fun and exhausting).
That said, it was less demanding regarding the staying on top of things. With our first we were all over him to get his essays done and LORs and speak to GC about sending stats, etc. Second time around we just let D handle it. Not that she was better at it, we were just less stressed.
I’ll actually miss the process a bit as it was fun helping them research programs and schools, and I loved visiting the schools. Made me want to go back to college and choose something along the lines of where my career took me vs. what I thought I would do.