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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other thing the OP fails to realize is this:  For most of us, we're aware of our kid's strengths and weaknesses, quirks and character long before they apply to college.  It's not like we encourage our average kids to apply to Harvard and then are bitterly disappointed when they don't get it, and get angry and disillusioned and jealous of people whose kids did.
Most of us parted paths with the Amy Chua's at our kid's schools many years ago -- when it became obvious that our kids weren't going to be marching lock step into an Ivy.  Maybe our kids are quirky and didn't really seem interested in taking 12 AP's and really just wanted to be on a swim team, or maybe they have other skills or maybe they don't.  But most of us started realizing who our kids were by the time they were in middle school and by that point it was already too late to send them back.  We loved them too much!

I can't imagine what kind of a cretin is bitter and disappointed by the kids they got, or what sort of a weirdo thinks a parent should feel bad because all they got was a great kid who loves them.  Go visit the CHildren's cancer ward and ask those parents if they'd be disappointed if their child went to an average college.  Most would be pretty thrilled if their child lived to adulthood.[/quote]

+100 this is exactly how I feel too - I have a friend who lost her daughter to cancer at age 6 and I think about her all the time. She would give anything to have her child alive today and where she attended college would be the last thing that mattered.[/quote]

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