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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like everything else, with the passage of time parents realize they made mistakes.  I was obsessed with the test scores at my kids’ public elementary school and my school obsession continued all the way through college admissions.  Now that it’s all behind me, it’s very obvious that how I acted was unhealthy and unnecessary - and that I risked serious damage to my relationship with my kids for no reason whatsoever.  Fortunately, my kids are the forgiving type and that hasn’t actually happened.

What you all will discover soon enough is that there is no correlation between the rank of your kid’s college and their professional success or personal happiness.   Five, ten, fifteen years out of college, when I line up all of my kids and all of their friends first by college rank and then by professional/personal success each line is dramatically different.  It really, truly doesn’t matter.   But there’s no convincing many parents who are currently in the process of this fact.  I understand that, because I’ve been there.

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PP, could you elaborate?[/quote]

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