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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's flat out depressing. I feel like I failed my child and I am not sure what else could have been done but all those years of striving for excellence, working so hard, dong so many ECs, choosing the hardest classes possible to impress colleges - it was all for nothing.   With a virtual perfect academic record and a host of passionate ECs, he's rejected/wl everywhere he really wants to go.

He is in a safety schools that literally the class clowns get accepted to.   I'm so sick of talking to people about it, everyone in our community assumed he was going to a T5 school - he is practically famous for being so smart - like photographic memory genius smart and they ask me about it constantly.   They cant conceal their shock when I tell them the options. I cant deal with the reactions anymore.[/quote]

No one is a shoe-in at a T5 school!!!!!!!!! What kind of simpletons have you been talking to?

Really, you did not "fail" your child in that it is his job to choose and get admitted to a college. You are not some puppet master.

It sounds like he worked really hard, which both of you should be proud of. Did he learn (e.g., content, study habits, more about himself?). If so, then it was not "all for nothing."

If you made a mistake it was spending the last four years --the end of his childhood--trying to "impress colleges."

That may have come across in his applications.

I hope that you can REALLy work on an attitude adjustment for the sake of your child. How is he supposed to cope with this setback, if you think he got into colleges where "clowns" go??? Is that what you thought when he added them to his list? When he wrote his supplemental essays? I do feel sorry for your child, and it is not because of how the admissions process went. It is because you both sound so confused about what matters.

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