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Parental help should be offered on the student’s
terms.

Students should be responsible for procuring their
own applications and test-registration forms.

A parent’s pen should never meet paper on a
college or scholarship application.

Deadlines should also be the student’s
responsibilities, not the parents’.

Parents can offer assistance in a variety of areas
where it will be welcome and appropriate.

Students and parents will need to collaborate on
financial aid applications.  

Decision making is perhaps the toughest area for
parent/student collaboration.
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Parents' Role in the College and Career Process
Each family will find a happy
medium somewhere between
the extremes of parents
procuring and filling out their
students’ applications and
parents ignoring the process.  
The student should feel
that he or she owns the
process—from start to finish.  
High school students are quite
capable of assuming responsibility
for this important phase of their
lives.  Colleges and employers
expect students, not parents, to take the lead role in making applications.  The
ideas below have worked in many families, and can be of help to yours:
College
Planning 101
Student Athletes
Visual &
Performing Arts
Military Options
Apprenticeship
Students with
Learning Differences
PROGRAMS & FEES
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College
Planning 101
Student Athletes
Visual &
Performing Arts
Military Options
Apprenticeship
Students with
Learning Differences
PROGRAMS & FEES
COLLEGE and CAREER
a s s o c i a t e s
TEL  (925) 254-9222                                                                      EMAIL success@allcollegecareer.com