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[quote=Anonymous]This is all hindsight bias. A kid gets into a top college and then doesn't do anything impressive, and people like OP say "oh yeah, we always knew they were middling, I don't know how they even got in there." Another kid gets into a good state school, does well, and is very successful, and people like OK say, "yes, they were always brilliant, it was obvious from the start." In reality these two students had the same grades and similar application profiles, but other factors (college fit, mental health, family support, general disposition, luck, choice of career, etc.) gave the different trajectories.

I have watched many people go the route of top high school student/academically ambitious, and attend a broad range of colleges, and wind up with a broad range of outcomes. And my main takeaway is that the most important thing is love your kid and be ready to support them whatever happens, because life is not predictable and you can't control most things, but you can control that.[/quote]

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