Reply to I can’t say this to my kid’s face, of course, but...

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "I can’t say this to my kid’s face, of course, but..."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. DS did the virtual tours and meetings and such. We did not travel during the pandemic. He is at a Big 3 or 5 depending on your definition.

He emailed his counselor to talk about next steps. She said, quote, "this year has been shocking" and they have an appointment to meet. I guess they will talk about waitlists and maybe she will try to help him to have a different perspective. She did say, "this is great for the schools that normally wouldn't get a stellar student like you."

That did NOT make him feel better. He did talk to his friends and I heard him laughing so something they said helped.[/quote]

I’d be pretty annoyed at the counselor. That statement she made was not helpful. We are a public school family so I’m not expecting the assistance, but for what you pay at a big 5, that counselor needs to be trying to help him with one of his waitlist schools.

I think the extent to which you should just accept the situation depends on what school he got accepted to - if it’s a well regarded big state school I would say go and make the best of it - if it’s Radford or ODU or something (and I’m not even knocking those schools but for a kid with OP’s stats he should be elsewhere). [/quote]

I am this PP and I’ll add that I didn’t feel bad for the kid in the other thread that “only” got into Grinnell and W&M honors. I feel badly for this kid who has clearly worked really hard and hasn’t gotten into schools I think he would have reasonably thought he might get into like UVM and Northeastern. It’s not like he went HYP or bust.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics