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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the OP - I'm sorry that so many nasty people are here. You are asking great questions. Doing your homework. Good luck. I just reported one of the nasty posts to eliminate the clutter. Lots of people are in your boat. Good luck! Sounds like you have a great kid.[/quote]

I agree that the OP has a "great kid" and that's what I've been saying since the beginning.  There's nothing she says about the kid that gives any cause for her to be concerned.  It's not "clutter" to push back on random lists of colleges or comments from posters along the lines of "he needs to bring his SATs up" when he hasn't even taken the test yet.

And it's certainly not "clutter" to advise OP not to allow the DCUM crazies to rope her in.[/quote]

There is a big difference between those who are constructively pushing back on school suggestions and those who are insulting the OP by saying they are nuts for being so concerned and anxious when they have given no indication that this is the case in multiple well-written posts.[/quote]

I never said the OP was nuts.  I said some of the responses are.[/quote]

You are the only crazies in this thread.  If that isn’t apparent to you, seek professional help.[/quote]

I read the OP's first thread carefully.  Many of the other posters did not, as evidenced by the many posters advising her that her son needs to get his SAT scores up, when she made clear that he hasn't even taken them yet, and suggesting the she look at Naviance when she made clear that she already had.

What I took away from my careful reading was that she has a well-rounded and happy 10th grader with many friends who is doing well at a selective NYC high school even if he isn't at the very top of his class.  I happen to think that a kid like that can and will do well at many, many colleges.  I also think that when dealing with a kid like that it often doesn't help to start "worrying" -- her word -- about college and projecting that worry on the kid.  And I'll never understand why posters throw out the names of a half a dozen or so random colleges, many of which are quite dissimilar from one another, in response to every one of these threads.

My initial advice -- that the OP relax and wait things out a little -- still stands.  I am not willing to go along with the college admissions frenzy that so many other DCUM poster help to perpetuate.    [/quote]

OP. First TY for reading my admittedly long post. I appreciate your pointing out (nicely) that I shouldn't be worried at this time. I think it's coming from knowing a bunch of kids going through the process right now at DC's school and similar ones, kids who have absolutely amazing profiles (multivariable calc in 10th grade etc) getting some shocking rejections. I am seeing the importance of having a strategy playing out in real time.

And yes, academically, DS can probably do fine at most colleges (not the tippy top ones, but we're not applying to those!). I suspect he'll wind up with a generic social science major that almost every school offers. I am far more concerned with finding the right social fit.[/quote]

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