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[quote=Anonymous]I still wonder if I was a mistake acceptance to a top 25 university. I got out with a 3.2 or 3.3 and that was using the free tutoring programs and going to office hours and studying way more than my friends who could somehow drink 4 nights a week and still do well. I was surrounded by so many students who seemed smarter than me that my confidence was shot. I am the poster child of imposter syndrome. I wonder now if have undiagnosed ADD, which had always made it hard for me to study. At my public high school I did well, but at this private university I drowned.

If I could do it again (and still meet my dh, as we met in undergrad) then I would have considered my second acceptance. I would look at your child’s personality—if they can roll with the punches and pull themselves up when the chips are down, then send them to the harder school. If you think they could benefit with big fish/small pond for confidence—then make it about the money (not their intelligence) to encourage them not to attend.[/quote]

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