^ Yes. The exact reason that I posted how this all happened-- and how it (eventually) got ironed out; this is a story that has more use than mere anecdote for this group of parents in particular, though. MANY of us will be guiding our kids into college at younger-than-typical ages. A fair number want some sort of documentation from parents when those students are under 17 years of age upon matriculation. We even knew that going in, and this still happened to us because we got bad data from official offices.
Sheer bad luck on DD's part, really-- as she DID do due diligence on follow-up-- twice. She just got minsinformation on three (or was it four) different occasions, and the "bad luck" part was that it all seemed to align to suggest that they didn't need anything else.
But it's a good point-- if she'd been 17, of course we'd have dealt with a lot of this given the stakes involved. Because she's 14, on the other hand, we had to let her do the "dealing" with it lest they think her "immature." Ironic.
