Parents become their child’s personal cheerleader, strategist and financial backer.

New York Post reports.

It’s the time of year when college rejections crush … parents

While doing research for a college-admissions book, I once spoke with a parent whose son had been rejected by a top college he had been pinning his hopes on for years. “They should write rejection letters to the parents also,” the father told me, after describing his bitter disappointment with his son’s rejection.

And now, as the season of rejection letters gets under way for this year, would be a great time to start.

With the competition for admission into the nation’s finest schools fiercer than ever, more and more elite-bound college applicants will be nursing their rejection wounds with pints of Ben and Jerry’s and plenty of misery-loves-company commiseration. But as brutal and soul-crushing as college rejection is to the applicants, often it’s worse for their parents.