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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids at SEC schools like Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee aren't having the problems described in this thread. They're having fun, loving life, tailgating and watching great football. And the academics are much better than they get credit for. Something to think about as your kids, perhaps as your behest, stress themselves out in high school and make themselves miserable to get into an "elite" college where they'll just be even more stressed out and miserable.[/quote]

You can’t generalize like this. My neighbor dropped out of Alabama this past weekend and is now taking a gap year. These are schools of tens of thousands of individuals. They aren’t all at tailgates. [/quote]

This. Struggling happens at all schools.  The worst three that we know were at Alabama, USouth Carolina and Tulane. Very bumpy, horrible time, drugs were a new problem added to the mix as a coping mechanism. They all came home and eventually transferred.
Some degree of regular struggle and stress (unexpected grades, imposter syndrome, cut from sorority/group, feel like can’t find true friends) where the kid has found their groove by second semester or even second year has happened at some point to every single college student we know, and happened to almost all of us back in the day. We just didn’t tell our parents or talk about it. We kept it inside or occasionally admitted to friends if we were sure they were struggling too. [/quote]

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