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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids grew up in NW DC where every extracurricular resource is scarce and competition for everything is really tough. By college app time they had both racked up a long series of rejections: multiple travel sports teams, musical roles, private school applications, etc. etc. They took college rejections in stride. [/quote] This is true of a lot of the private school grads I know. I know people for whom getting waitlisted (and later admitted) for kindergarten at one of the elite private schools is a formative memory. This is an extremely competitive area and if anything, many HS students underestimate their abilities and potential because they are so used to losing out to other people. A lot of kids here who feel "middle of the pack" would be valedictorians who got in everywhere they applied in a different setting (assuming same level of effort and resources).[/quote]
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