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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid will be fine. They will go to a college that’s right for them. Parents put pressure on their kids to go to T20 schools and those schools are not right for everyone. There are great schools out there that have very successful alumni. [/quote]

The problem is that even if you don’t pressure your kid to go to a top school, the high school culture is still focused on that goal. We actually forbade our kids to go to those schools: we told them we think they cost too much, and we told them that part of the “cost” we think is too high is the psychic cost of what it does to aspirants in high school. I sit there with my kid calculating how much her assignment-by-assignment grades won’t even affect her year-end grade (the only one that goes to colleges). It doesn’t matter. If a high school is a pressure cooker, as a parent you cannot take the pressure away except by pulling your kid out of the school entirely and cutting off their relationships with friends. [/quote]

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