<p>I want to give my parents the parent statement part of my application as soon as possible as they will likely be very busy in the next few months. However, rather than give them EVERY supplement to all the schools I am applying to, I want to give them a couple of prompts which will hopefully answer all of the prompts. Are the parent statement portion prompts universal enough that this can be the case, or would it be wiser to give them all of the supplements? Also, how long do these prompts have to be and how important are they?</p>
<p>It is nice that you are so considerate of your parents’ time, but I would just give them the forms aleady.</p>
<p>honestly the schools don’t care if you give them a common parent statement. for all my teacher rec’s and parent statements i used the TABS common app to save time for everyone, and hey look, i’m at a boarding school! 
don’t worry about it and honestly for my parent statements, my mom wrote them in chinese and i had to translate them, so they obviously were not that good - the main part is for sure YOUR application!</p>
<p>Got a chuckle out of this:</p>
<p>@ChoatieMom…hilarious!</p>
<p>Hmmm… Generally, the questions are the same, with some exceptions. I think what I would do is copy paste for the questions that are the same (see together those bits and pieces!) and generally make an essay that covers all the questions from a certain school. Okay, that’s confusing but I hope you get the gist. But doing a common application can get confusing, the lines get blurry and I feel like I am more productive working with the school apps.</p>