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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents please stop projecting your own insecurities onto your children and causing more problems with your own parents but obsessing over college admissions and assuming that we grandparents give even the slightest shit about where our grandkids go to college.  We will love and be proud of them regardless, because we have been around long enough to know that where they end up won’t matter in the end.  You, on the other hand, need to get over your disappointment and stop dragging your kids down with you. [/quote]

Throughout this process, my parents told DS that he was behind in his planning; choosing the "wrong" schools; and not doing as well as his cousin, who is also applying.

My parents told me that I needed to force him to apply to certain schools (where he had no shot or interest) and to tell him to reorder his priorities.

They spoke of nothing with him besides the college search and we gave him permission to walk away once his attempts to redirect failed. We shut them out. We will do the same for our younger two kids.

When DS chose a school. my mother said "Oh! No one here goes there! Why would you want to pick that one?" An hour later, she said congrats on being done, but she hopes he doesn't move to the midwest permanently.[/quote]

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