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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A gap year sounds a great idea.  If he defers the acceptance he has now, it is really hard to even seen a down side to this.
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why do people keep talking about deferring?  Her kid doesn't want to go to the school.[/quote]

NP. But he needs to go somewhere, right?[/quote]
according to him, he doesn't have to go anywhere this year. He can take a gap year and then apply some place else.  He doesn't want to go to the one he got into, so how does deferring help his problem?

If he wants a gap year and reluctantly accepts, then him taking the gap year is about sulking.  I would not let my kid sulk like that. Short term upset is understandable.  My kid was the same.  But a whole year to sulk? That isn't someone who can defer and be happy after a year.

Someone who sulks about getting into only one college that he applied to such that he'd rather work on a farm for a year doesn't seem like a person who can deal with life's disappointments.[/quote]

Do you feel better about yourself posting something like this? Your post is petty, insulting, and judgmental. And you're gross for posting it. Especially about a young person who has worked hard for 4 years and is experiencing an outcome that he is unhappy about. These kids deserve some compassion and understanding. Not a grown a$$ adult coming on here mocking them.

Shame on you. [/quote]
eh.. if my kid sulked like this I wouldn't be happy about it.   Like I said, DC also got rejected at most, WL at one, and only admitted to the one DC didn't want. They were upset for a few days. I understand the upset.

I bet my DC's stats were a lot higher than OP's kid.  DC is in a magnet, too, and DC had every right to be upset, but, not to the point where they want to go off for a year and work on a family farm.

These kids and some parents are waaay too invested in what college they go to, and if they don't get in, life seems to come to a grinding halt.[/quote]

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