A good chunk of this month has been devoted to helping my daughter deal with her college applications. Honestly, I don't know how any young person manages the paperwork (sans paper; it's all on computer) without the direction and hand-holding of a patient parent and also a college counselor. My head is swimming.
Part of the difficulty comes when, like my daughter, the student hasn't traveled the traditional high school route. For her high school experience,my daughter first went to the nearby public high school, home-schooled for a while, returned to public school and then switched to a small private school. What an ordeal trying to make that all fit nicely in the University of California online application. One high school school follows a block schedule; for biology, she went to the local community college. Photography in one of her schools is UC-certified (meaning she can list it on her transcript); in her current school, photography can't be listed. Whew!
The whole annoying and cumbersome process strikes me as the perfect training for following a life that's safe, predictable, and typical. Step outside of the ordinary and pay the price of not being easily classified and understood.
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