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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know of several (five) students who got into their first-choice school they'd been aiming for for years, only to drop out and come home at the end of the first year. For some, it was academic troubles, for others it was disappointment in the culture/community/vibe. It's almost as if the school couldn't possibly live up to the expectations they had. In each case it was very traumatic experience or the kids and, frankly, the family who had focused for years on that school as the goal and then it didn't work out.

My daughter is still a freshman, but has her eyes on a particular school and is becoming increasingly fixated on it. I do think she can get in. Any advice on how we can we prevent this sort of flame out if she does attend?[/quote]

I think you can't, but your premise is flawed. Lots of students leave college after a few months or a year because of mental health issues, adjustment issues, health issues, you name it. I don't think it is caused by it being the "dream" school. It also happens at schools kids aren't particularly thrilled to attend. Maybe more often.

I have known several kids with physical health issues that manifested during the first year of college.. I don't know if the change in diet, living arrangements, and stress contributed, or if it was just chance, but I don't think it had much to do with the school itself.[/quote]

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