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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if any of the parents/kids have regret after spending 3 years of high school doing nothing but preparing their applications to these elite schools only to be disappointed.
The countless hours on AP classes, clubs, volunteer hours, SAT tutors, consultants, etc, etc., only to end up at the same schools where kids put in half the effort but enjoyed the 3 years of HS.
To each their own.[/quote]

When I was young, I actually got into my first choice -- but even so, I wondered what it might have been like to have taken psychology like my friends did instead of calculus, what it might have been like to take an art class since there was never any room in my schedule, what it might have been like to go on a date rather than spending four hours a day practicing the piano, what it might have been like to have had a summer job instead of going to a really competitive music camp every summer where I could practice ten hours a day in a beautiful setting which I never saw from inside my practice room.

I consciously chose not to treat my kids like race horses in the hope of getting an Ivy acceptance.  I let them take the ceramics class in high school, take the summer job at the pool, let the kid who liked practicing music for five hours a day do so but didn't force his siblings to do it too.  My children will all be employed productive members of society and as a side benefit they don't hate me.[/quote]

^^ I've heard it the other way around just as often if not more often: I wish my parents had pushed me more, how come I never got to go to summer camp, sure some of my friends sacrificed early but now look where they are!  And it's a big myth kids who get into excellent colleges did so because their parents treated them like race horses -- most of them pushed themselves - and don't hate their parents at all.  [/quote]

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