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[quote=Anonymous]Also, re-reading your letter, you seem to have multiple competing concerns: 1) Will your daughter actually go to grad school? 2) What will she do in the next year? 3) Will she live with you? These are really different questions, and probably need to be discussed separately. I'll say this - I passed on a PhD program straight out of undergrad because I was too young, and I knew that the academic job market was a nightmare and that I would need to be prepared to be top of my class from the gate. My parents worried I would never go back to school, and I never did get a PhD. I did, however, get a Masters in a field related to what I did after undergrad and am perfectly happy and productive as an adult. More to the point, the thing I did after undergrad paved the way for admission to a top-flight graduate program that essentially does not accept folks straight out of undergrad. [/quote]
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