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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you will soon get used to your lower status in your friend group but you have to be honest with yourself - if your kid got into an inferior college because he was a low-achiever in high school, this was the result of bad parenting and quite properly reflects poorly on you.[/quote]

NP- I know you're just being mean and I should ignore, but you've captured how I feel. My DS is probably going to his safety and I feel like I messed up somehow and let him down. Trouble is, he has a great (not perfect) GPA, took all the right courses and did all the right ECs. Still, the admissions process won. He doesn't love his targets anymore and didn't get into his ED reach. So either he gets excited about a target (which I'm not excited about either) or [b]he goes to the safety he always loved[/b] (but is the lowest ranked school of all his high-achieving friends, by far). 
I could have written OP's post. This whole process is not for the weak if you have a top 25% of their class kid. [/quote]

What is wrong with this outcome? He goes to a school he loves! That's great!

FWIW, my top 25% of class kids both are at safeties that they love and it was a non issue with their friends because they are not a**holes.[/quote]

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