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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much pressure did you apply on your kids to get great SAT scores, pick most challenging courses, right. ECs…? Do you think it paid off in the end to do things the way you did? If you did not stress about it and kids went to cc, a college with easy admissions, do you regret it?[/quote]

To get back to the original question - I was in the latter category (didn't stress, DD had OK grades and attended a college that many in the college discussion board have dismissed as a "safety" or "mid-tier" school). No regrets at all. She had a wonderful experience, had interesting internships and a great study abroad semester, and is now gainfully employee in her chosen field.
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This was our experience.  There are many, many kids who fall between the tippy top of the class with 1600 SAT scores, 15 AP classes, 3 varsity sports and national level awards and kids who have no choice but to go to community college. My son got more As than Bs, took a mix of regular, honors and a handful of APs, got a 34 on the ACT without doing prep for it, played zero sports, and had a very stress free college application process despite only being in the top quarter of his class and not being very driven academically.  He would have been absolutely miserable grinding his way through AP English or History or taking 5 years of a foreign language so he didnt do those things.  He spent his free time on music.

He's in grad school now, happily studying the one subject that interests him. [/quote]

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