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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids grew up in NW DC where every extracurricular  resource is [b]overabundant[/b][/quote]

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Maybe.  But the pool of competent/impressive kids is larger.

My friends who have kids elsewhere (in middle America) don't have to fight 50 kids for a single spot on the travel basketball team.  Or 100 kids to make it to the 
semifinals of the spelling bee. Or whatnot.

They have a reasonably smart and/or reasonably athletic kid and the kid rises to the top of the local cohort.

Here you can have a talented kid and it's like "take a number".  I'm sure it's similar in other urban areas.

Anyway--my point is not that the area is competitive OR heavily resourced. It's that my kids have been REJECTED A LOT. 
And their response to college rejections was like, "shrug. Okay.  Moving on". [/quote]
Getting cut from the elementary cross country team happens in public elementary schools in NW DC.
The kids have faced disappointment
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