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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sick of these posts…there are gobs of them if you search DCUM.

There is no perfect school so it was all a lie anyway.  [b]You should never have let your kid think this way which is your fault.[/b]

Tell them life is hard, give them a couple of days to grieve then have them focus on all the great things about the schools they were accepted.[/quote]

How do you know OP did her kid thing that way? As a parent, you encourage your kids to work hard school get good grades and work hard to get to a good college. The problem is your kid who has done all that didn't get accepted, while others do. The kids have to think of some college to go to and work towards that but still not accepted. That is not easy to deal as a parent and OP is just trying to find out from others.[/quote]

Well…if my kid said their dream school is X, I would quickly tell my kid there is no such thing as a dream school.  How hard is that?

For literally every school that looks like X there are dozens of equivalents.[/quote]

Ok, how do you guide your kid to apply for college? Apply as many and see where you can get in. So we can learn from it.[/quote]

My kid is interested in a bunch of the big southern schools.  I told my kid that Clemson, Auburn, UGA, South Carolina, Alabama etc are far more similar than they are different.

Apply to 10-12…we will find true safety equivalents as well (those are definitely targets for my kid).  Once the dust settles, we visit (already visited some) and figure out what seems like the best option.

Make sense?[/quote]

And what happens if the child is interested to go to Duke, UNC or UVA and has the stats?[/quote]

They can lob in an application…but none of those are a dream school and they completely understand that acceptances are low.[/quote]

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