Opinion: College Admissions: Let’s Cut the Stress!

"Last night I collapsed in a heap on my daughter’s bed and screamed, “I hate this whole college process!” My daughter, a high school senior, looked at me and said, “But Mom, this is not your college process.” Oh, but it is my college process. …

… So what could make the process easier? How about mailing financial aid offers to the parents, who after all are the ones who will be paying for the school? Let us see them first so we can decide what the choices really are." …

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