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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Offering support but no advice here.  My oldest is a junior, and we are finding this year even more hideous than expected, and we were warned and prepared (the one thing I think has come off well was her idea to take the SAT's in the fall to get them out of the way).  Up till now, I would have said she was any easygoing person with few teen anger type behaviors, but she's basically turned a bit feral lately between studying for APs, SAT subject tests, and fielding questions from everyone about what sort of colleges she might want to go to.  My husband dragged her on a northeast college trip last weekend, and she was so stressed about studying for upcoming tests that the only thing he got from her was that she hated some of the schools marginally less than others.

We did have a bright spot this week.  A friend had made me a mix tape that has a song called "Nausea" on it, and the chorus starts with:

I got so tired of discussing my future 
That I've started avoiding the people I love.

I played it for her and told her I think of her whenever I hear it, and I got an actual laugh out of her for the first time in quite some while.

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Best thing I did to alleviate DC's stress was boot the SAT subject tests right out the door. Decline to take them, cross the schools that require/"strongly recommend" them right off your lists, and poof! Instant relief. In no small part because you are removing most of the schools with sub-20% admit rates in one fell swoop. See you later colleges-that-say-they-don't-want-stressed-out-kids-but-create-admissions-requirements-that-ensure-just-that. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.[/quote]

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