Although my daughter says she wants to go to college, she’s also sick of (high) school, and showed no interest in the research, planning and application process. It was great to have Mary, a third party, be in charge of steering her through the convoluted process. Mary was friendly, low key, and stayed on my daughter without at the same time making her feel nagged or harassed. Although we are still in the application process and she has not heard from any colleges yet, I’m confident that with Mary’s help my daughter ended up choosing an appropriate selection of schools, any one of which would be a good fit for her.