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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, thank you for this post.

I have two kids: one a private, one at a public.  They are both very good students with very good test scores.  They have both had a lot of disappointing news from colleges--rejections from their "reach" schools, more rejections and loads of WLs from what seems like targets.  Still waiting for Ivy Day but nobody is holding their breath. They will be fine because they  (thankfully) have acceptances from 3-4 solid safety schools.

I've been appalled at some of the bitterness and smallness some parents whose kids have had similar experiences--literally sending group texts around to other parents ("can you believe that so-and-so got into College X? Larla got deferred...must have been yield protection..." or "Larla got wait listed at College Y...if she had gone to Public School X she would have gotten in, probably with merit!")

Like many others have said on this chain, we have no idea what other kids have that ours don't.  But we do know that: 1) the supply of slots is far to small to meet the demand at many of these schools and that there's going to be some randomness and luck involved once; and 2) our kids look to us for how to react when things don't go our way...casting blame will not in any way help them, not now, not in the long run.[/quote]

Well said. Admin should take OP"s post and yours and pin it in this forum.[/quote]

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