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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ignor all the a$$hole posts OP. I feel for you. This sucks and it’s really difficult to be in that position as a parent. Two things - 1. can you work the WL hard?  [b]Have your DH call every alum with any pull he knows to email in your kids behalf[/b] and have his school counselor call and email too. 2. Remind him he can transfer (to most other colleges). One year in a college he isn’t excited about will either change his mind or inspire him to work his butt of to get out. [/quote]

I’m naive. Please tell me the bolded isn’t actually something people do.[/quote]

What?  Are you really that clueless?. Yes, it is how it’s done. 100%. If your kid gets waitlisted at a school they really want and not happy with choices, and you or your friends have the connections, that’s what you do. If you go to a top private, that’s what the schools does too, sometimes asking other connected parents or alums to help. Getting your kid into the best college is a deadly serious endeavor for some people and they use every tool at their disposal. This is common at a certain level. [/quote]

Common or not, it still makes the kid look kind of pathetic. [/quote]

Ha ha ha. No. It doesn’t. When a school has a less that 15% acceptance rate it happens to even the absolute top students. Nothing pathetic about using connections. Not having connections to use is far more pathetic. [/quote]

Suit yourself - ain't too proud to beg, I guess.  Others would say that a family/student with strong self-esteem and firm sense of identity wouldn't be so desperate and wouldn't care what other people think.  ("We HAVE to get Johnny into X or what will our friends at the country club think?") [/quote]

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