Parents' Guide(s) to Helping Your Applicant

What role should the parent play in the application process?

If you're asking this question, here's a good article from The Seattle Times that summarizes the (sometimes conflicting) advice from seven highly rated books.

And if you want to dig deeper, these are the seven books mentioned in the article and their Amazon ratings. Clicking on the titles will take you to their Amazon summary page.

"Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond," Marilee Jones and Kenneth Ginsburg.
Amazon rating - 5 (2 reviews);

"What Colleges Don't Tell You (and Other Parents Don't Want You to Know)," Elizabeth Wissner-Gross.
Amazon rating - 4 (11 reviews);

"Getting In Without Freaking Out," Arlene Matthews.
Amazon rating - 4.5 (10 reviews);

"The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life," Laura Kastner and Jennifer Wyatt.
Amazon rating - 4.5 (6 reviews);

"Panicked Parents' Guide to College Admissions," Sally Rubenstone and Sidonia Dalby.
Amazon rating - 5 (2 reviews);

"Kaplan Parent's Guide to College Admissions," Marjorie Nieuwenhuis.
no Amazon rating;

"Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know about Getting Into College," Sally Springer and Marion Franck.
Amazon rating - 5 (9 reviews).

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