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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This forum, r/ApplyingToCollege, CollegeConfidential, etc. is getting borderline depressing now. I understand it from the kids’ perspective, but to see parents falling over themselves because their kid got rejected from a school with an 8% acceptance rate is sad. Supposedly well-adjusted people “crashing out” over rejections from notoriously selective schools.

Learn that your kid isn’t special and that’s okay. Your kid, your family, etc. isn’t destined for greatness because they worked hard during high school. So did a majority of their classmates. You or your kid doesn’t deserve an elite school. You’re just another upper middle class family who is status obsessed who has nothing substantial to offer the world. American dream, whatever it was, never existed or just wasn’t accessible to you. Learn to grow up and teach your kids about life and reality.

When you sit down and watch this clamoring for four years of a person’s life, you realize how utterly stupid this all is. But no one wants to hear this because they think their kid is some savant for getting above a 1500 SAT. Give me a break.[/quote]

Sorry your kid didn't get in[/quote]

I’m at a top school. That’s why it’s even more sad. These schools aren’t that amazing.[/quote]

Wake doesn't count  :thumbdown:  [/quote]

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