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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you need to fight the creeping competitiveness. What i take from your post is you went to ivies and you want your DC to go to an ivy and are willing to plunk down money to make it happen, if it will make it happen. This is the attitude that makes senior year so toxic for so many kids. Maybe your DC will get into an ivy and maybe DC wants to go to an ivy (are you sure? or is DC following what is expected?) or maybe not. But there are plenty of better places to get an education. I say this as a graduate of HYP whose DC is attending a SLAC and getting the kind of education I wish I had -- faculty attention, rigorous intellectual environment, not a lot of the sharp elbows of pre-professionals.

Maybe you need to take a deep breath and stand down, saving the money in the process (to answer your question, no it won't help). Let DC do what s/he wants rather than activities that are "recommended." I guess its too late for that, but you can decide now whether to make the next year more or less painful.[/quote]

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