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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High school students who are college-bound will go to college. Even students without Honors or AP classes can get accepted, somewhere.[/quote]

This.  IMO the stress is from families 100% locked into prestige OR ones using 1990 admissions as a yardstick of where that profile of student would have gotten in and the cost i.e. back in the day the student would have gotten into a top state university for $4000 in-state tuition and a top private was $14,000 tuition.  Fast forward today and the top flagship isn’t guaranteed and cost difference between in-state and OOS could be 20-30K easy and difference with private could be even more.  If the student truly has safeties that they would be happy to attend and the family can afford - there really shouldn’t be any stress.[/quote]
This sounds so pretty, but unless your kid applies exclusively to safeties they’re risking rejection. And that’s inherently stressful for a lot of kids. Even if they’re already in at affordable safeties they’d be happy to attend. [/quote]

No, it's inherently stressful to a lot of mommies. The kids would be fine if you would let up on them.[/quote]

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