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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids grew up in NW DC where every extracurricular  resource is [b]overabundant[/b][/quote]

FIFY[/quote]

Maybe.  But the pool of competent/impressive kids is larger.

My friends who have kids elsewhere (in middle America) don't have to fight 50 kids for a single spot on the travel basketball team.  Or 100 kids to make it to the 
semifinals of the spelling bee. Or whatnot.

They have a reasonably smart and/or reasonably athletic kid and the kid rises to the top of the local cohort.

Here you can have a talented kid and it's like "take a number".  I'm sure it's similar in other urban areas.

Anyway--my point is not that the area is competitive OR heavily resourced. It's that my kids have been REJECTED A LOT. 
And their response to college rejections was like, "shrug. Okay.  Moving on". [/quote]

You are mistaken.  This is not Lake Woebegone.  Kids here are not inherently more impressive or competent than kids elsewhere, but their parents are all the same kind of striver pushing them into the same few opportunities.  Sincerely, kid who absolutely competed with 50+ kids for a spot on an AAU team in the 1990s in suburban flyover America.[/quote]

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