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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread really feels like it's deteriorated to "mine is bigger than yours" quality.[/quote]

That's not the intent.  The intent is honesty on an anonymous board.  [b]No kid with UVA caliber stats wants to go to JMU.[/b]  Or VCU.  Or GMU.  You get the picture.  They just plain don't.  You need a very strong record for UVA, and the kids who work hard enough (or are blessed enough intellectually) to accumulate that record are simply aiming higher than the other schools.  It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the other schools; it's just reality.[/quote]

[b]But actually, I said earlier that my daughter prefers JMU and is not interested in UVA.[/b]  [/quote]

Respectfully, come back here and say that after she's applied to and gotten into both.  One year, during a trip to OBX, we proposed making a quick stop at William & Mary just to check out the campus.  One of ours kids (not the UVA one) was a entering senior year at the time, but refused to make the stop, saying there was no reason to because there was no interest.  But we knew better -- the real issue was fear of liking the school and not getting in.  College admissions are tough for kids.  I'm sure you know your daughter very well and that she's a great kid, but it takes a truly extraordinary kid around here not to get all worked up, anxious -- and, at times, defeatist -- about the process.

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Respectfully, you need to get it through your head that you actually don't "know better," and stop demanding that other parents and kids follow your lead.[/quote]

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