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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DO posters realize it is Yale or Fail for some parents?  The same parents who would not admit it out loud?

It really is all about appearances, sadly!  I feel for the kids, seriously.  It is not that far from sheer abuse.

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I feel bad for the kids because their parents' expectation for them is something that is next to impossible. Don't know offhand what Yale's admit rate is but I don't imagine it's more than 5-6%. So it's possible to be awesome but still not get in. Except when that's all your parents have wanted for you since you were 5 and maybe they've put it in your head your whole life that it's ivy or bust -- they're basically setting you up for disappointment if you are not the chosen one that gets in.

Expectations can be something a child can achieve -- a college education, a career, maybe even a Top 25-50 university, some kind of happiness/fulfillment. But to focus the child's entire world on 8 schools is a recipe for disaster.[/quote]

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