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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, you're just minimizing and belittling someone else's pain.

Yes, there is war and famine in the world. But if an athlete who trained their whole life to go to the Olympics narrowly misses making the Olympic team, do they not have a right to be severely disappointed? Kids put in a lot and time and effort. Many made very big sacrifices.

Yes, they'll get over it. But right now, it stings.[/quote]
NP here. I think your analogy doesn’t make a lot of sense for several reasons. An Olympics hopeful who just misses out on the Olympics is still going to be one of the top 10 or 20 people in the country in their sport. Kids who stand out at the equivalent level academically compared to their peers around the country do tend to get into their top choice schools, even in today’s crazy admissions world. And for most people who just miss the Olympics, that is the end of their sports dream. Compare that to the kids with excellent academics we are discussing here. Every single one of the 20 thousand or so similarly situated academic superstars around the country will end up at a college that will give them the opportunity to continue killing it academically. Many will go on to grad school and have the chance to get the prestige degree they weren’t able to for undergrad if they still value that once they see a bit more of the world.

I think everyone on here understands how disappointing it is to be shut out of your top choices, and no one on here is attacking posters who are merely expressing disappointment or frustration with the system. But that type of poster is a very different one from the type of poster who is outraged that their kid might attend the same college as the class clown or who is thanking her savior that her child got into a better school than the party kids.  That’s such an incredibly warped perspective. [/quote]

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