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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With Decision Day about two weeks away, I'm wondering if anyone out there has any advice regarding consoling kids if things don't work out the way they had hoped. Since we won't have any idea why our children are or are not accepted, how do we help lessen the sting? My child is in middle school, so he's old enough to understand "acceptance" or "rejection." If he isn't accepted, should I just tell him he was waitlisted if he doesn't get in to his top choice or any of the schools we applied to on his behalf? [/quote]

Sending you good luck and a hug through the airwaves, OP

Its gut wrenching when someone doesn't appreciate your child as they should. Even if it is just a numbers game... its still a gut punch

Our DC was WL for Pre-K and got in off WL. 14 years later graduated cum laude and won a couple of the school's highest awards at graduation.

Here is my advice: If you get a WL, hide your worry and send in the wait list accept, write a 1st choice letter if taken off WL or make 1 phone call - ONLY ONE. Maybe wait until a week or so goes by when their declines are starting to roll in. Be nice , be cool and then force yourself to think about something else. Kinda like if you just broke up with a major boy friend. Think about anything else

If you don't get off WL come April 1st OR if your DC is not offered admission AT ALL next week ( rejection ) then take your kid somewhere they love where you can give them lots of 1:1 attention and tell them just how foolish you think that school was for making such a DUMB mistake. Their LOSS[/quote]

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