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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter got her rejection letter last night but her two friends that she was waiting with didn't get anything yet. I'll be thrilled for them if they got in - they're perfect fits for Eastern and will thrive there - but yikes my daughter will be even more crushed. I'm struggling with them seemingly testing everyone in school for what ends up being very few spots that not even kids with 99s necessarily get. All the kids got all ramped up about it and now are all crushed. I guess good life lesson but it still stinks. [/quote]

This is the downside of testing a broader swathe of kids. I'm genuinely sorry for the kids who are disappointed, and I suspect my kid will be disappointed as well, but as social policy it is still the right choice to cast a broader net in the hopes of identifying kids who for whatever reason weren't being identified to date. [/quote]

Kids learning rejection in 5th grade is SUCH a good thing.   Not even because it will "make them work harder in the future".    Just because it's good to get rejected from something you really want and realize that you are still an incredibly valuable person.   In this case it's even a more important lesson:  these kids will learn that they can do everything right (study hard, get 99% on a test) and you know what?  Many times life still doesn't work out.  And it's ok.   They are still valuable people, good students, etc.  [/quote]

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