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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back to the OP

I think your kid got a spot at UMD in the scholars program, am I right?

So is his need for a place in college less important than bragging rights for getting lots of different offers?

Because I genuinely don't understand. He got a place at a college he'd like to attend.

Problem solved. Move on. Seriously.[/quote]

Ditto this.  
It really sounds like this is just a pride issue.

Many parents feel this way.  They want their kid to be courted by multiple schools.

This area is so insane in this way.  I remember a few years ago on the private school board a parent posted about losing sleep over the fact that her son was rejected from XX high school.  She admitted that the kid had been accepted to 2 other selective (Big 3) high schools 
but she just couldn't figure out why school XX would also not want her son and it was causing her a ton of stress 4 weeks after admissions were out.  The kid wasn't even really interested in school XX but the fact that there were school administrators "out there" who turned
down her kid for an unknown reason was truly stressful for her.  She just couldn't figure out why they didn't see how special her kid was. :roll:

This area is full of parents who NEED to believe that their kid is SUPER, SUPER special.  And the reality is that 99.9% of our kids are not SUPER, SUPER special to anyone but us, their parents.  [/quote]

Normal people can NOT keep up with the multi million dollar donations to HYPS, OP. And that is okay.

Not to minimize your concerns, because they are legitimate, but do not let your anxieties become your DC's anxieties, because that is the biggest crime we can commit as parents.

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