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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see a massive amount of hand wringing on this forum.

So I have to ask: [b]what are you truly afraid of? [/b]

What do you suppose might happen if your kid doesn’t get into a “good enough” college?

Surely you all must know successful people who went to a huge range of colleges. So you know it’s far from the end of the world if you don’t get into the college you like at 17 years old.

[b]So what’s the fear? [/b][/quote]

I won’t be able to feel a smug sense of superiority when I put my kid’s school bumper sticker on the car.

Muffy will laugh at me behind my back to the other ladies when I miss book club. Maybe. Probably.

My kid’s poor mental health stemming from my failure to provide him with any sense of perspective won’t be able to be waved away as the price of being a high achiever.

He might decide to use the weed like a poor person instead of developing a cocaine addiction like all good investment bankers do.

He might have to actually have a conversation with aforementioned poor person. Or, worse, a kid that went to public high school.

He might meet his future wife whose only ambition is to become a nurse or a teacher or something gross that helps people like that.

The list goes on…[/quote]

[b]Feel better?[/quote][/b]

Really. Such bitterness. So sad.[/quote]

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