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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's flat out depressing. I feel like I failed my child and I am not sure what else could have been done but all those years of striving for excellence, working so hard, dong so many ECs, choosing the hardest classes possible to impress colleges - it was all for nothing.   With a virtual perfect academic record and a host of passionate ECs, he's rejected/wl everywhere he really wants to go.

He is in a safety schools that literally the class clowns get accepted to.   I'm so sick of talking to people about it, everyone in our community assumed he was going to a T5 school - he is practically famous for being so smart - like photographic memory genius smart and they ask me about it constantly.   They cant conceal their shock when I tell them the options. I cant deal with the reactions anymore.[/quote]

I feel like you went into my brain and articulated how I was feeling and our situation. If I hear it will all work out in the one more time I will scream.  [/quote]
There are two of you who are are anguished about your famously brilliant children ending up at the same college as the “class clowns”? [/quote]

There are far more than 2, I assure you. We haven’t yet heard of a “class clown” or “party kid” getting into a top school, thank God, but we certainly are shocked by many kids who should be getting into much better schools than they are. It’s really awful and totally unfair. My kid is into her top target school and we are insanely grateful (she has been WL or rejected at some other targets and all reaches) which is pathetic but reflects the current environment. This whole 2022 college process is an unmitigated disaster. [/quote]

+1 My kid is also so far only getting into what we considered to be safe schools. However, a couple of other what we had considered to be safeties have flatly rejected him. For the schools that he did get accepted into, he has similarly qualified friends who were rejected, so he can't identify any objective reasons other than that he got lucky - which he finds unnerving.

I'm looking at the large number of applications that the schools have received this year and wondering if the top schools have all ended up admitting the same set of students, including in their waitlists. I guess we'll see more news on Ivy day, but we are pretty much resigned to the current state of things after a long string of rejections.

Aside: I attended UMD, College Park. Go Terps![/quote]

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