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[quote=Anonymous]I went to college a little over 20 years ago and made friends with a group of kids who had settled for the big state school rather than going to a more prestigious private school who had all gone to a competitive top governor's school for high school. 4 or 5 of them really struggled at the state school because they thought they were too smart or maybe too special to need to work at the intro level classes, and I mean they failed freshman level math and science classes because they didn't think they should have to work at them they way the rest of us regular high school students did. It can be really hard to overcome being told you are special for so much of your formative education. All of the schools she's been admitted to are fantastic schools full of incredibly smart and hardworking students who are just as special as she is. College is a blank slate. No one cares where you went to HS or what your grades were in HS once you are there, which can be either jarring or freeing. I hope she's resilient enough to get over whatever disappointment she's feeling now and put her best foot forward at whichever school she ends up at. [/quote]

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