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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The mindset expressed in this mother's letter to the Atlantic about her DC's college application experience explains a bit how we get to the college admissions scandal. There is a view that there are only a few highly selective schools that are acceptable, and that acceptance to any one of them is indicative of your worth as a student and a human being.  Right now, my DD is applying for internships and she is frustrated at not getting the ones she want and in exasperation she has asked me "don't you think I deserve it?"  Yes, she works hard. Yes, she has good grades.  Yes, she goes to a "good school."  Yet, I have a very hard time telling her "yes, you deserve it and it is not fair that you are not being selected/"  I haven't yet figured out how to answer her question.

That being said, the Mom who writes this letter to the Atlantic is a nutcase and she is going to ruin her child for life.  Life is not fair!  Get over it! You do not have a right to attend an Ivy League or any other school.

[url]https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/02/im-worried-my-son-wont-get-good-college/582979/[/url][/quote]

That letter writer mom and your DD are right. I wondered why my friend’s DD went Ivy, while myDDhad better skill sets, grades, SAT, etc was rejected even by schools like BC and Tufts. I checked 5he donations to Penn and sure enough [/quote]

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