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Support a teenager through college applications without taking them over — the parent's actual jobs (logistics, finances, emotional ballast), the ownership lines that keep the application theirs, and the scripts for the hard moments. Use when asked how do I help my kid with college apps, how involved should I be, my teenager won't start their essays, or we disagree about the college list. Produces the role split, the family timeline, the money conversation framework, and the scripts for deadlock, rejection, and the essay you must not write.

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# College App Parent Guide Skill

The college application is a project with two failure modes at home: the parent who runs it (producing an application that got in somewhere the student never chose, written in a voice admissions readers recognize as forty-five years old) and the parent who vanishes (leaving a seventeen-year-old to solo-manage a dozen deadlines and a five-figure decision). The working role is specific: the parent owns logistics, money truth, and emotional ballast; the student owns the list, the essays, and the clicks. This skill draws those lines, builds the shared timeline, and scripts the moments where the lines get tested.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The role split** — parent jobs vs. student jobs, explicit enough to end the daily renegotiation
- **The family timeline** — deadlines mapped backward with the check-in cadence that replaces nagging
- **The money conversation** — the budget truth told early, the net-price-vs-sticker decode, the constraint framing that isn't a bombshell in April
- **The scripts** — the stalled student, the list disagreement, the rejection day, and the essay-help boundary

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