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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would worry more about not spending time with friends. That is very upsetting.

Stanford will take him or not. You need to prepare him for the unpredictability.[/quote]

I am the OP. I don't know how to do this. I feel he will take a rejection very badly.

I keep asking him to spend more time with friends as I did at his age. But he says if you dream big there's no time for that. I do worry.[/quote]

I'm pp. Your child sounds driven and brilliant and wonderful. There are lots of driven and brilliant and wonderful people with incredible accomplishments who will not gain acceptance to the school of their choice. I genuinely think therapy now, before all of the decisions come out, is critical. What may be the worst case scenario is that he does go to Stanford and realizes that he worked so hard for something that isn't a magic key to happiness. He needs to engage in something other than a goal that is not in his realm of control.[/quote]

A kid who needs to take the SAT five times to superscore is not brilliant. He is surely motivated but not brilliant. [/quote]

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