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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard from my kid that results are so bad this year at our (Big3) school that the college counseling office is now telling kids 
to either take a gap year OR matriculate at a lower tier school and "try again next year".

Have you heard this? It is worrisome or typical advice?[/quote]

If I spent 200k on a high school and that was the outcome, I'd want a refund [/quote]
 Hmmm. So it is the school's job to place your child in their dream school for college, or the experience wasn't worth anything? I disagree completely. I have a child at NCS/STA and I know my child will be beyond well prepared for college. They will start to visit schools next year or this summer and we will look at many different sorts of schools, not just those everyone else will apply to. If they are applying to "lower tier" schools they will be schools that are great fits with excellent programs that fit my child's personal goals and interests. Then no matter which application leads to an acceptance letter things will be okay. Will the option to transfer if need be be open, of course. A gap year, yes if there is a solid plan to make it worthwhile. But to say that four years of solid curriculum, athletics, arts and hard studying which led to great amounts of learning are meaningless if they don't get into Yale,etc? Well that, madam, is ridiculous and beside to point.

I feel bad for kids who aren't counseled to only to apply to schools they are excited to go to (in a variety of acceptance ranges). They can be found.[/quote]

This is all fine, but if your kid puts together a list of schools they are excited about, including "lower tier" schools with great fits for excellent programs for your child's goals and interests, and doesn't get in, will you still be very happy with the money you spent at NCS/STA?

That's what parents on this thread are saying. They aren't talking about kids who only applied to top tier schools where admission is a crap shoot even for excellent students. These are kids who applied to Auburn and Boulder, were actively excited about the prospect of going to these schools, and were rejected during the EA round. These kids are, in fact, very well prepared for college, but right now they are scared that they might get the same results from RD (or may have only applied EA/ED), and will be facing a gap year and applying all over again because they have no other options.

I guarantee you that you would be questioning the value of your child's expensive education if you were in that situation, and you are rationalizing now that these students/parents must have screwed it up somehow because that makes you feel secure that it won't happen to you or your kid. But it might, and you'll be back here complaining.[/quote]

But let’s be honest - what Big 3 kid only applied to Ed/EA schools? Surely these kids have RD applications out there. And certainly there are schools that take applications later than traditional cycle. 
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