When processing your college application, it is usual that your parents will be involved.
They are always going to be a valuable resource for you. But it is very common for parents to be too involved or dominate the process entirely. The student should be the one leading the process and doing most of the legwork. If a parent’s fingerprints are all over an application, admissions counselors will see it.
Even before the application is submitted, parents can often smother the process. When investigating schools and making contacts, the student should steer the wheel, with the parents’ help happening behind the scenes. If early on, you let your parents take control of the process, that influence will often last through the process. This, in and of itself, is a negative. Admissions counselors are looking for signs of self-sufficiency on the student’s part. Your parents aren’t going to be there to dot the i’s and cross the t’s when you get to college, and your college experience really begins with the application process.
It’s your name on the application and your life that will be affected most. The best person to look out for you is you.