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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since she hasn't actually started college yet, she's still in a place where the school that rejected her is as real as the college she'll actually attend. That will change the instant she hits campus. Suddenly, *her* college will be everything she sees and everyone she knows -- as large as life itself.  (The college that rejected her, by contrast, will only get smaller and smaller, and will eventually dissolve into a pinprick she'll barely be able to see.)

It's so easy for kids to fixate on things that don't matter at this stage. They're stuck in the waiting place -- college looming but not yet begun -- so there's very little TO fixate on. It's all normal. It's all good. This, too, shall pass. [/quote]

OR - she will forever in life associate 5th choice college as "the school that rejected her" - regardless of how much she loves her dream school experience.  I don't think letting this slide does her any favors in life (this is just one of many such hurdles she will face in life) - where as parents addressing with some blunt realities will add a new voice to her internal narrative that could help not just now, but later too.[/quote]

The hurdle is her Main Character Syndrome and obsession with irrelevant external validation. She needs to overcome that. [/quote]

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