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[quote=Anonymous]My son was one of these last year. The only thing that “went wrong” is that he set his hopes only on the top schools. He ended up in the T30-T40 range and he was really disappointed. But he was up against all of these other top kids applying at T20 schools.

He is fine at school but he is still a little disappointed. He had a good freshman year and made friends. He thought he was going to want to try try transfer and decided not too.

He was good with the decision until he found out today that a friends from HS who took far less rigorous courses and had Bs and Cs in HS put in transfer applications to top schools and got into a T20. So now all of his old insecurities and feeling bad about himself have kicked in.

I try to talk to him about not comparing but it’s virtually impossible. Now he says he feels like a loser for not trying to transfer because if his friend got into a T20 maybe he could too.

Neither my husband nor I went to a T20 school so this pressure never came from home. It was definitely his HS culture to be caught up in the ranking and top school craziness.[/quote]

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