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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid was admitted to:

UCLA 
Washington & Lee
UVA
William and Mary
Miami University 
American University 
Christopher Newport University

Rejected from:

UC Berkeley 
NYU (today)

She is extremely bitter because I won’t co-sign six figures of parent plus loans to attend UCLA. You cannot convince me it’s $120,000 better than UVA or W&M. In fact, W&M is more highly rated for undergraduate teaching (#4 in country, tied with Princeton and behind Brown, Elon and Georgia Tech, of all places).

She hears from Duke tomorrow and Brown next week. I am anticipating rejections from both.

I have tried to explain to her that her success rate is incredible and a lot of kids with better stats aren’t even getting into some places she has. But it doesn’t matter. She is fixated on selectivity percentages rather than finding a school that will be the right fit. Says she will be “miserable” going to school in Virginia. I said misery is making payments on six figures of college debt for 20-25 years.

Serenity now. Or at least better drugs...[/quote]

This is on you.  If you weren't willing to co-sign that's fine -- I agree with you -- but you should have made that clear to her before she even applied.[/quote]

GTFO. You never know if you're going to get a better aid package.

Why are you always "calling people out" because they wouldn't do exactly what you would? You don't seem like the sharpest tool in the box, anyhow. There are lots of reasons to make lots of different decisions. And yes, sometimes the outcomes are not perfect, but that is life. The point is not to never face any kind of difficulty. Sometimes, it's good to reach for things, see where they land, and make the best decision. It can be a growing and learning experience. It doesn't have to be... oh you handled this all wrong, you're the worst parent, I'm the best. It does not make you look like the best. It makes you look like a fool. [/quote]

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