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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's actually a common problem.  My parents are the same and I had to have several conversations with my parents about the competitiveness of admissions these days.  Part of what they can understand is more people want to go to college (when they were in high school, only 60% of their high school graduates went to college, women less), and the number of colleges is the same.

My dad is obsessed with his alma mater and wanted me to bring my kids to visit. He offered to take my kids on a trip to visit for a weekend.  My older kid wanted a specific program that the college didn't have, so it was easy to say no.

Now he is on the younger kid.  I literally had to take him aside - I told him - DS can't get into that school - he doesn't have the grades and he won't have the scores and he takes no AP. Please don't bring it up - he literally cannot get into it.  Luckily, he stopped pushing.

I think they really just don't know and its better to tell the truth, show them Naviance or just google admissions and show them the new standards.[/quote]

I agree, common problem. I went to an Ivy and my mom just tonight was talking about my DS (9th grade) going to Harvard, etc...She’s not even all that into the idea of a prestige school but she just assumes that since he’s a really good student, probably even better than I was, he’s going to easily get into a ton of schools like I did. I’ve tried to explain how things have changed and managing expectations but she only sort of gets it.[/quote]

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