That’s how 17-year-old high school senior Alex Zaret described the college admissions process, during a tour of the Skidmore College campus — the fourth school Zaret had visited, with another half-dozen to go.
“It is kind of a full-time job,” Zaret’s father, Owen, said.
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.
