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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will say it - I think schools didn’t admit her bc her essays were about her mental health struggles over getting Bs during Covid.

I wish the system wasn’t this way - we talk a good game on mental health - but I think societal actions prove another thing.

I also think business is an incredibly oversubscribed major. [/quote]

Here is the thing.  The schools cannot deal with these mental health issues and they don’t want to.  My student’s college had a suicide recently and it rocked the campus.  The school should have known this student was at risk (there was a very public sign).  I have no idea what the school did to help her, but I suspect [b](based on my student’s experience with campus mental health services)[/b] nothing.

We have messed up an entire generation with our curating and over parenting.  The schools are now seeing the other side to many of these overachievers and they want no part of it.

Mental health is at a crisis state on many campuses. If she wrote about having anxiety over a B, it’s no wonder she got rejected.  The schools no longer want perfect, curated kids because they fall  apart once they get there and the schools hve to deal with it and are not equipped.[/quote]

The bolded: So true. The small college and big state university my child attended, at certain times of the year, if you hadn't scheduled early on, they would just refer you to some service called "thrive'' or another one called ''better help.'' [/quote]

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