That’s how 17-year-old high school senior Alex Zaret described the college admissions process during a tour this fall of Skidmore College — the fourth campus Zaret had visited, with another half a dozen to go.
He wasn’t joking. With research to do, visits to make and applications and financial forms to fill out, “it’s a lot, and it’s a lot on top of two full-time-employed parents and a very engaged high school student,” Owen Zaret said.
But even in the year or so that the family has been doing this, the Zarets have detected a subtle shift.
“It used to be more an ivory tower approach,” Zaret said, which signaled, “ ‘You’re lucky if you come here.’ And now, I think, for a variety of reasons, that’s changed. It’s more like, ‘We want you to be here.’ ”
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