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[quote=Anonymous]American students -your great kids- are no longer competing with only a narrow swath of  privileged prep school grads.  There are more than 6 billion people on the planet, and your child is completing with some fraction of the 16-20 years olds among them. If you are determined to think that your child is 1) a failure or 2) unfairly "shut out" of less than 10 desired colleges, you are very out of luck.  
If you think your fabulous child is one of the luckiest people in the history of the human population on earth because they will go to a great college, which you can probably pay for, and have lots of great experiences and choices and opportunities in their lives, your child is not out of luck at all. If you are going to teach you child to be unhappy when faced with a life that involves more comforts and opportunities than most royalty in history has had, then yes, your child is out of luck because they will never enjoy all the gifts they have.  Lest you think I am preaching from some high cloud, I was ready to throttle my own kid this week, when she complained about how hot it was while visiting someone without air-conditioning. How do you think most of the people in the world live?  Not like us. Don't let your kid be "out of luck." Let your kid know they are lucky beyond most people's wildest dreams, and to run as far as they can with that.[/quote]

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