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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, it’s really alarming to me.  What do you get from berating a family or young adult and their choices, etc? It’s awful.  [/quote]
Well, the fact is that most of the responses in this part of the forum are from high school students and college students. Not "parents." And it's mostly kids from Montgomery County and Fairfax County who currently attend or recently graduated from ultra competitive pressure cooker magnet high schools (there are some kids from California, too). One kid who studies engineering at UMich seems to have posted hundreds or thousands of times about UVa. He starts with an absurd statement "boosting" UVa, then complains in response to his own post. It's like a weird play he puts on for all of us. My belief is that the kids who have taken over the DCUM college forum are just trying to share, with someone, their hopes for the future and their anxieties about college achievement and fitting into mainstream American culture. Their own parents don't really connect with them, so they come here to have some kind of interaction with some kind of parent. But the problem is that they're only connecting with other kids who are impersonating their parents, too. Sometimes the bored lawyers get into flame wars with the bored, lonely kids impersonating parents, and it's like a dysfunctional family has sprung to life on these anonymous boards. And that is better for the kids than being stuck in their rooms trying to meet their real-world parents' impossible demands for Ivy or bust.[/quote]

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