Argyle Liberty Christian senior Anouk Tubeileh does pushups on the sidelines after a touchdown by Argyle Liberty Christian during the first half of a high school football game against Bishop Lynch on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023 at Roffino Stadium on the Bishop Lynch campus in Dallas. The final year of high school should be full of fun and fond memories, but modern pressures can make it a heavy lift, writes Tyra Damm.
Those college applications create a whole subset of stress. If you haven’t peeked at the college application process lately, it’s more complicated than it used to be. Many colleges are now test-optional, meaning you don’t have to submit an ACT or SAT score, a specific ambiguity that creates all manner of angst.
Some schools consider how much interest an applicant has shown — meetings, tours, webinars — while others have no interest in tracking that data.A fresh layer of stress this year is the delay in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form, traditionally available Oct. 1. This year the government is releasing it sometime in December, specific date not yet announced. Texas law requires that every 12th-grader must complete the form, or opt out, to graduate.
Some of the high school seniors this year have put all their eggs in one basket, their heart set on only one school. Others are applying to 20 schools just to see who lets them in. Some are taking a year off, funded by parents, and others will jump into work or military service as soon as possible. Some will live at home to attend a training program or a school within commuting distance.
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