When my daughter was a junior in HS, she began researching colleges and gathering information on her own. Her school did not get too involved until her senior year (i.e…mtg w/college reps visiting her school, mtg w/college counselor, etc..) We realized in hind sight that they got involved a little too late and her/our experience in dealing with applications, rejections, visits, etc. was a disaster. Maybe because my kids attend a private, college prep HS, I was expecting too much from them.
Fast forward 3 years, and my son is now a junior. In speaking with other parents who have juniors at other local prep schools, my son's school is way behind in the game again. Other schools are meeting individually either at the end of 10th or beginning of 11th to start going over the beginnings of lists, meetings with college reps thru school and day field trips to local colleges (William and Mary and CNU). Our 'junior night' is in the spring and our college counselors are meeting with kids individually at the beginning of their senior year. I feel like that is too late. My kids school is so focused on dealing with the seniors that the juniors seem to be floundering.
We just got a list of colleges visiting our school thru November and only got it because one of our junior ambassador parents pushed the administration for it. Apparently, the visits started 2 weeks ago which means we missed out on a few school representatives that my son would have loved to meet and talk to. Frustration is an understatement!
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