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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven't read all 17 pgs but my answer is - bc it doesn't feel good to have to say my snowflake didn't get into an Ivy; rather it feels better and easier to stay "positive" and explain why JMU or Mason or wherever is better than an Ivy anyway due to finances, location, or whatever other reason that family latches onto.

[b]It's not complicated - it's the human need to not admit defeat, failure or inadequacy.[[/b]/quote]

Obviously. Crazy that it took 18 pages before someone just admitted this.[/quote]

I agree with this, but I do think this human need to NOT admit inadequacy has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. Maybe it has to do with the special snowflake parenting that is fashionable now, maybe it's something else -- I don't know. But I went to college in the early 90s -- as did my sister, cousins, friends etc. All of us tried for the ivy league schools/MIT/Stanford/Chicago and even back then, most did not make it. Yet I vividly recall my parents, aunts/uncles, friends' parents being pretty open about it -- i.e. Jason is headed to Rutgers, Stanford was his top choice but he didn't get in. It wasn't said to be mean or put the kid down, just honest. None of the excuse making of -- oh well what does a Stanford degree even get you; I went to Glassboro State and I'm doing great so why even bother with Stanford; Stanford just wasn't the right fit, he really can't live in those Spanish architecture dorms for 4 yrs or whatever. [/quote]

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