college-app-parent-guide
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.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill college-app-parent-guide --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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 ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **Where in
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Ownership Rules
- Output Format
- The Role Split (post it)
- The Timeline
- The Money Conversation
- The Scripts
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the college-app-parent-guide skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill college-app-parent-guide --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.