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[quote=Anonymous]I got very far very quickly with my parents by sitting them down and showing them the Naviance data for my kids’ schools. Pulled up the data and showed them where their grandkids hit— and where I hit in HS. I put aside SAT inflation and grade inflation (because now is not the time to muddy the waters) and showed them I probably would not have gotten into any of the 4 college I applied to and was accepted to— two on full rides (Duke, Davidson, Wake and UNC) and that their grandkids could not assume admission to these schools— an would need to ED to be competitive. The sea of red Xs at near perfect stats was a good visual jolt. A discussion of demographic trends is abstract. Their precision grandkids’ markers sitting in the middle of a hundred red Xs was cold, hard reality. [/quote]
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