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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to admit, these responses make me sad. DS was bound and determined to attend a pre-admissions camp at his dream school before his junior year, and it looks like that won't happen, either. I know I don't have to tell him no now, but it seems like I'm just kicking that down the road.

Thanks.[/quote]

These pre-admissions camps mean nothing. Don't worry. [/quote]

Don't be silly. They might not affect admissions, but they allow the child to decide if an elite university is where they want to be and take away some of the shock if they matriculate.[/quote]

Who’s being silly? What you are calling a “pre-admission” camp should really be called a “pre-application” camp. There would be no special “shock” for a high performer who gets into an elite university that could be anticipated and blunted by sending them to a camp there ahead of time. A week or two at, say, STEM camp at Stanford, bears no resemblance to being a student there. If going to the camp at the mysterious unnamed “dream school” would be fun and enriching, that’s great. But stop framing it as “pre-admission” camp or something that’s going to somehow help your kid decide whether “an elite university is where they want to be.” If your kid is 11 and already has a dream school - that came from you. And now you are already heartbroken that his dad won’t let him go to overnight camp at this dream school FIVE YEARS from now. It’s time to recalibrate.

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I recalibrated. He'll end up a failure and that's ok, because most other kids will be as well. Thanks - that's not snark. I really did need that perspective.[/quote]

You don’t sound mature enough to have an 11-year-old.[/quote]

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