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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our family friend’s son was confident (overly so, imho😔) he’d get into one of the Ivies. He was getting so emotionally distressed after last night’s disappointing rejections. He was a regular high stats kid but with mediocre ECs. Any suggestions on how to console him? It’s hard to tell him his profile was not nearly good enough for any Ivy without hurting him. (We know many high stats kids with much better ECs getting shut out of the Ivies. They’re, though somewhat disappointed, weren’t surprised at all.)[/quote]

Simple, show him other high stats kids rejected.

It's always a problem, either parents or kids themselves are overly confident because they don't know the outside world. 
I knew a kid ED a T10, ends up at an unknown college just better than CC, when schools don't tell you what is your rank, and most of kids can having lots of As, that's bound to happen. Like the one with 4.1 weighted GPA, thought he or she should get in UVA or at least VT.[/quote]
In this day and age, there’s tons of free information online. I honestly don’t understand how this could happen. Perhaps stubbornness?
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