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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm going to be straight with you, it is very unlikely that your DC will get into any of the schools you mention and the college guidance counselor was being straight with you. The thing that will make him feel inadequate is your pressure on him to attend one of these schools. You are clearly devaluing the many, many other incredibly good schools and the result will be to set your DS up to feel like a failure. You are equating going to another school as being "academically incompetent". He does not have the test scores, the grades (if he's trending up, that means there's room to go up which means his grades aren't strong enough now). But even if his grades and scores were stronger, he would need a hook. Really, they take kids who are either connected legacies or have extraordinary talents. Thats just the reality.

He will get into a great school, but it is highly unlike to be one of those. You need to cast the web wider. he could apply to one of these reaches but don't put too much faith in it coming through.[/quote]

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