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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin

DD's friends from HS
Rejected Cornell, attending Pitt
Rejected Columbia, attending CMU
Rejected MIT, attending Northeastern
Rejected Georgetown, attending Case Western 
Rejected Barnard, attending Bryn Mawr
Rejected Penn, attending Wesleyan
Rejected Brown, attending Amherst
Rejected Davidson, attending Case Western
Rejected Stanford, attending WashU
Rejected Oxford, attending St John's College

Friends at college
Rejected Amherst, attending Oberlin
Rejected Brown, attending Oberlin
Rejected Harvard, attending Oberlin
Rejected Wellesley, attending Oberlin
Rejected Northwestern, attending Oberlin
Rejected NYU, attending Oberlin
Rejected Dartmouth, attending Oberlin
Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
Rejected Williams, attending Oberlin[/quote]

How the bloody heck do you know this about your kid's COLLEGE friends?

I am super involved in the lives of my college kids and talk to them almost every day but i would have zero knowledge about where 10 of their college friends were rejected from college.  That is just really, really, really weird. [/quote]

We talk a lot, I work at a university, and my kid wants to work in admissions for a bit after graduating. She and her friends discuss it at times or she mentions that it comes up in conversation. Every kid seems happy at Oberlin, even if it took a couple semesters for some. A handful of her friends also ED'd to Oberlin, but a lot of Midwestern LACs entice kids with merit even if they weren't the first choice.[/quote]

NP - I am so, so tired of posters going out of their way to remark on how bizarre, weird, or horrible it is to know the details of our college kids' lives. A lot of us talk to our kids every day - what do you think we are talking about? My 19 year old talks my ear off about her every thought, what's going on with her friends, etc. and I listen. This was a big theme on the sorority thread too. Just stop it.[/quote]

I talk to my kid daily but knowing the schools that 10 of her college friends were rejected from and being able to list then out there is just REALLY WEIRD. [/quote]
Your feeling it necessary to make this comment is weirder.[/quote]

How have you gotten this far as a parent without realizing that different kids, parents, and families are different.

And that’s both normal and ok. There are many, many ways to raise happy, healthy, successful kids. There are also many, many happy, healthy, appropriate ways to interact with college-aged and adult kids.

No one approach has the monopoly on what’s right, best, or normal.

Live and let live.

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