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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for this.  Helps relieve the guilt.  I can laugh at it now a little bit (I'm the OP).  But I truly get your point.

I was kicking myself for not reading the email with the 25th.  I should not have missed it, but I did.  Funnily enough, I did *not* miss the line about the Feb 11th actual recommendation deadline.  The truth is, her teachers said they are ready to write the recommendation right away if needed to help her get through this obstacle.

Last week, my daughter and I were talking about teachers she had in mind on Thursday PM, and then again on Friday.  It would have been all too easy for her to enter the name by the deadline, but we just did not know.  She did not read the congratulatory email.  I opened it first and she did not read the whole thing.  She was happy to hear me say she got in and went to her phone to text friends I guess, so all my fault really.

Others here say she'll be eaten alive.  I am not too sure. :)  For sure she would struggle mightily (everyone does), but she is quite capable (in my view, parent glasses).  She is on Geometry, which she said is second year high school math, and on talented (don't want to say gifted because I consider that category something else) classification on all subjects in the APS classification system.  That's something, even if not enough for TJ survival.

As you noted about colleges, I am also very familiar with the deadlines of elite graduate schools, and their flexibility within reason.  I have been granted at least one waiver (Georgia Tech on TOEFL), and MIT on being late with a visa paper (they called me to ask if they could help as I did not have enough assets to show in a bank statement; they also waived a few other application documents).

TJs policy is as everyone says here, so my daughter and I can deal with that.  I don't believe their being strict is about being a great, sough after school, just that it is their policy.  That said, being an elite school provides the blanket to be more strict with rejections.  They can always find someone of equal or higher quality. :)

I would be interested in forming a group, but that makes only two. :)  Your points are great suggestions, it must be said.

Her MS gets a few each year, and I am happy to encourage their team to send reminder emails next year.[/quote]

I posted above about how my child's guidance counsler reminded them to do this, TWICE.  I personally could have easily forgotten as well and anyone suggesting an eighth grader isn't cut out for TJ due to this oversight is downright obnoxious and off base.  No reminder emails were sent, in what day in age does this not happen?.  If they are going to be so strict about this artificial deadline, then they really have no excuse not to send out a clear reminder email.

Have you talked to your child's guidance counselor?  Maybe they can help advocate on your child's behalf.[/quote]

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