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[quote=Anonymous]Something to consider: my child did not get into her reaches. But I met a mom who pulled out all of the stops to get her kid into their dream school (consultants, SAT PREP, etc). The student crashed and burned freshman year. She actually failed out and had mental health fallout, but did not tell parents for a while because she perceived how important it was to them that she succeed there. With her subsequent children, the mother said she learned not to use their resources to "tilt the scale. " She said the schools know which kids are likely to succeed in their environment. She feels now that she set her first kid up for failure by shoe-horning her into a place that was beyond her capabilities. So, be careful...sometimes, things work out the way they were meant to. Communicate to your kid that you are proud of where trying their best lands them.[/quote]
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