Dds college had an open evening for parents with speakers from unis and tutors giving info on parents can support their child. They've all done similar round here has your dds not?
This might be long, but I found it very helpful because nobody in either of our families has been to uni so it's all very new and to me and I almost fell into the trap of pushing my child into topics she didn't want and the talk made me realise that's not the way to support my child.
They suggested that parents go through all the subjects and options, and places, even non uni options such as apprentices and listen to your child's reasoning and support them, not push them. They said a lot of parents make the mistake of only pressuring their child to consider the choice they want their child to take based on trying to fix their own mistakes they made as young adults themselves, but that it's very important to they choose for themselves.
They'd said there's no such thing as a bad degree, and that things are very different to when our generation went to uni, there's so much more choice and diversity in roles and gave many examples of student doing computing related degrees but ended up in a whole different graduate role, and that sometimes the experience of uni and getting away from parents and following their passion is what shapes the child in a good future employees, making and learning from their own mistakes instead of parents pressuring their kids to avoid their own mistakes instead being encouraged to make their own minds up.
Another thing one speaker had said is that they've had students drop out after being pressured to take subjects they didn't want, sometimes with parents who refused to financially support them if they wouldn't chose what they told them to and ended up utterly miserable.
They'd asked parents to please not imply working in a supermarket means an awful life either, there's no shame in it and they've had so many students seek emotional support because they struggle with the work load and have the added pressure of parents going "look at Matthew, degree in computer science and working in Tesco, what a waste" etc when Matthew might have only done computer science because his parents pressured him too, for the money and he hated it, or some kids realise the jobs their parents want them to have mean they have to move quite far from their family and want to make a life more locally, or introverted and/or anxious kids gets pushed i to highly competitive fields that require a lot of socialising and can be dog eat dog and said it's exactly why parents shouldn't use someone with a degree working in Tesco's as some kind of bad example. It adds more pressure.
They'd also told parents to consider that there's a higher amount of uni applications due to many deferring the last two intakes due to covid and to encourage their kids to be open to more than one u I and more than one subject because highly competitive places are going to be even more competing and not put their eggs all in one basket type of thing.