Parents, do you check your child's admissions decision for him/her?

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>It seems like some parents go on line to check their child's admissions decisions. </p>

<p>I am always anxious but I don't check for my kids. How about you?</p>

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<p>You might find the following discussion on this topic about a month ago interesting:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1452737-parents-let-your-child-one-view-admission-decision.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1452737-parents-let-your-child-one-view-admission-decision.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Agreed…see other discussion. But checking YOUR kid’s portal would mean having your kid’s passwords. I never had those passwords, they were not mine.</p>

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<p>Each situation depends on that parent-child’s relationship. My child wants me to check and, when I have found out and not told her, she always asks why didn’t I tell her. When I explain I wanted to let her find out on her own, she says she doesn’t care and just wants to know.</p>

<p>If she didn’t want me to check, I would respect her request and would not. There is no one right answer.</p>

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<p>Thanks! I did not know there is already a discussion about this topic.</p>

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<p>I let my son check and tell me. I do have access to his portals because I monitor the financial aid stuff and make sure things get updated, etc. He doesn’t want to be responsible for this because it it simply too important.</p>

<p>But the admissions materials, letters, etc. are his privilege and responsibility. </p>

<p>He is a kid that needs time to process disappointment and share in his own time so with the admission days looming, I’ll know right away…whoops of joy vs silence.</p>

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<p>My daughter checked all of her decisions except the one at the mom’s choice school. She wasn’t that interested, so I checked. Boy did I feel pleased with myself when she chose that school.</p>

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<p>I don’t know about you all but when my S was in HS he rarely checked his email so, with his permission, I had his email address forward to mine so that we did not miss anything. I believe most of the schools emailed that the decision was ready so I would tell him that it came and he would then log in. </p>

<p>The school he is attending only would only mail the final decision and the outside of the envelope basically told you what was inside.</p>

<p>I just want to add that now that he is in college he does check both his personal and college email accounts daily. He just never had a reason to in HS.</p>

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<p>Nope. My son insisted that he do it himself. Luckily, his first choice school sent its decisions via snail mail in a giant envelope that gave it away.</p>