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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know if your son has been open with his friends, and it sounds like he’s already doing fine, but my kid felt better after learning that several high-performing friends didn’t get in to their first-choice school either. They commiserated together, even dropped homemade cookies at each other’s doorsteps, and then hunkered down to write the rest of their applications. I’m hoping my kid gets into UMD soon (the next school on her list that will send out results) so she knows she has a place to go somewhere, but I think that after the pandemic and everything else this past year, this is a crop of strong kids who can handle college uncertainty better than many adults!  [/quote]

This was my DS's experience too (minus the cookies, add playing online games together). Misery definitely loves company in this situation. The initial sting was pretty bad, but soon the messages were flying fast between him and a couple of friends and he found out several others weren't admitted and he didn't feel so alone. I'd say he moped for a few days saying, "I'm not going to get in anywhere.' Then he got back to essay writing.

I thought my senior year was sh-tty because the guy I liked dated my friend and that miserable PE teacher Ms. Barley gave me a B, which messed up my GPA. One day these kids are going to have some story to tell their kids if they have any.

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