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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let her mope and just[b] say she'll end up at the school she's meant to be.[/b]  Her hard work in high school isn't for nothing. She can put the skills and traits she built up to use in high school at a place that is happy to have her and has all the resources she needs to succeed. [/quote]

OP here: I've told her this- her response is that she hates this determinist attitude since she's worked too hard to throw her hands up and trust in fate. [/quote]

It was not just fate. She constructed her list of schools. She should have liked something about the safeties or they should not have made it on her list.

If she is JUSt being driven by rankings/status/competitiveness (with peers), then that is a problem. She will always find someone with more than she has. It is a bad way to go through life.

I understand her disappointment, but suspect once she gets into the school she chooses (from multiple options, which is a good position to be in), she will probably grow to love it.

Maybe have her read " Where you go is not who you'll be" [/quote]

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