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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in his senior year at GDS and the college application process here is very intense. People get very uncomfortable and offended if you ask where their kid is thinking of applying. Students tend to not want to share this information with each other.

My neighbor's children all go to Jackson-Reed and all the kids openly share where they are applying, their struggles on the SAT and often laugh about it together. There seems to be far less competition and anxiety over the college process at JRHS than at GDS and other top private schools.

I also notice many Jackson-Reed families have no issue saying "yeah, my kid got rejected by all their top choices but will be attending Penn State and is excited about it." Families at GDS would be mortified to say anything like that.

I wanted to know why do students from each of these environments have such disparate approaches to college applications? [/quote]

Because some of us experienced what this process was like on a smaller scale when applying for upper-schools post elementary. Which felt very much like college to me. Everyone gossiping about who applied where, who has a friend on the board at what private to give them a boost in acceptance, who hates your first choice school, who used the super special entrance exam tutor, who did or didn’t prep for the entrance exams and interviews, who got waitlisted everywhere come the March acceptance date…

We’ve seen how all this went on a smaller scale before and our family chose to stay out of the fray of gossip, handwringing, and judgement and chose to just focus on our kid and their process. Which is what we are doing for the college process. It’s more to preserve our mental health than it is to be secretive, OP. [/quote]

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