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[quote=Anonymous]Posters do need to keep in mind that they’re living in a bubble.  And that bubble is the competitive families gunning for competitive college admissions.

The large majority of people don’t live in that bubble and couldn’t care less.

So we don’t ever see social media posts by friends or family or friends’ kids announcing college admissions.   It just doesn’t happen.

It’s the world you all are choosing to live in.

We lived and raised our kids in a highly desirable inner DMV suburb and sent them to a frequently lauded public high school on this board.  We never discussed college admissions with any of the parents of our kids’ friends and we knew most of them since the kids were in preschool.  I can still remember the parents of our youngest kid’s best friends learning for the first time where she was going to college at her small high school graduation party at our house.

It can be done.

You and the company you keep are just way too caught up in the college thing.  What you don’t realize but will learn soon enough is that with rare exceptions in the end it just doesn’t matter where they go.   Ten years down the road you will not be able correlate your kids’ and their friends’ professional successes and personal happiness with where they went to college.  Even using our own family as an example, one of our our kids with an “elite” college degree has pretty much the same job making the same money as our kid who went to a state school that accepts nearly 90 percent of its applicants.  The important thing is that they’re both very happy.

You’ll learn soon enough.  [/quote]

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