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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We clearly travel in different circles. Some of my friends were also Ivy people, some not. No one projects our experiences onto the next generation.

Find better friends.[/quote]

OP here. This is actually where I was going with my question. If I said “no, she visited and is not interested” (which is true), shouldn’t that be enough? I actually have no idea whether she would be admitted IF she applied. She is a strong student, but she is not applying. I feel like it is somehow more important to the “friend” than me - or even DC! I suspected it might have been malicious, in a not so passive aggressive manner.

Who keeps asking such a question and why? Weird. [/quote]

That would be off-putting. You can tell when a person is asking from place of malice and intends to gossip about your child, and it is sad.[/quote]

OP here.  I think so, too.  I guess I was trying to deny that it was malicious, so I wanted to know what other people thought. Our family is happy when our friends get into the college that they wanted, and that fit them the best.  Am I being unreasonable? What kind of parent does that - are they just a gossip or worse?  It doesn't seem very friend-like to me, and maybe I tend to think that people are good, or at least not malicious, so it is baffling. [/quote]

Are you being asked multiple times in the same conversation?

If it’s happened every time you see each other at baseball games or something, perhaps your friend just isn’t a good listener and is asking again because she doesn’t remember that they asked you before.

My DH - who is very detail oriented at work, but a bit spacey socially- tells people the same stories over and over, asks same questions, etc, because he doesn’t mentally keep track of who he has and hasn’t told the stories to. It’s a little embarrassing when he does it to people we know well, but it’s not really meant to be rude - he does the same to me. [/quote]

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