I’ve found that there are three overarching categories of students: 1) those whose parents oriented their children’s lives entirely around college acceptance, like AP Frank’s; 2) those whose parents didn’t really have an understanding of the realities of the college application process, thus forcing the student to take the burden of self-development onto themselves; 3) those who found themselves somewhere between those two extremes, with their college desires and self-development supported by their parents, but not enforced, systematized, or militarized.
