To be fair, and I'm first to call this young generation coddled to death, but so many kids lost actual school for a year or more and the expectations to get into college now is like "build a business with a billion customers" or "found a non-profit that feeds whole countries." It's like when you see the other science fair projects and they're rockets going to actual space and your kid made a volcano because you didn't help except for getting into college. We're not quite there yet, and I have a very self sufficient 16yo, but I feel like we're going to have to help because everyone else is!
Working in college admissions consulting before versus after Covid is night and day.
The students are *so* much more fragile and their writing abilities have become severely degraded. Parents are now far, far, far more inappropriately involved than when I started 8 years ago.