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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here.  My kids have also never asked "why Larlo and not me?"  That's not how they were raised to think.[/quote]

Oh, please. It’s normal for a teenager to wonder why they weren’t picked for something. [/quote]

Nope.  Normal kids understand the randomness of elite college admissions and don't ask this.  Mine never came home and cried over a friend's or acquaintances's college acceptance that was "better" than theirs.  Maybe it's because they never knew anybody else's "stats" or college applications to the friggin' letter!  It's ODD.  [/quote]

Hello?  You are posting on a board that exists to allow parents to obsess over where their kids will get into college, what stats it might take, whether not taking one specific AP course is the death knell for all their college hopes and dreams, which tutor/outside advisor to pay thousands of dollars to to increase their chances, whether private or public school gives them a better chance, etc etc etc and the [u]actual teens [/u] who are applying are supposed to be above wondering who got in and how they compare to those who did?

Give me a break.  [/quote]

The purpose of this board, at least so far as I am concerned, is not limited to "obsessing" over where kids will go to college or what stats and classes may be required.  It's to [b]share information[/b] on a wide variety of college-related issues.  [/quote]

And yet somehow, when students and parents “share information” in person, it’s ODD and bizarre and obsessed?

I am old and when I went to high school in flyover country in the 80’s, everyone knew the test scores and grades of the top students and where they were admitted. This is not a new thing, not is it limited to the DC area. [/quote]

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