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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here

I have something to add.

Jan-March - all the parents who are anxiously waiting for decisions, maybe the kids too, loosen their grip on reality, just a smidge.

You see it in the open hostility, and aggressiveness, in their responses in the college forum. Even a pretty innocuous thread instantly gets filled with bile.

The waiting game is insanely hard. There is a lot of loose anxiety looking for a place to land and drives everyone a little crazy. But maybe get a better hobby than rage posting on DCUM. [/quote]

Otoh, maybe rage posting on DCUM is a better strategy for blowing off steam during this blasted January–March waiting period than smashing up all your friendship groups, which is what I’m watching happen around me. [/quote]

Really? It's that bad?[/quote]

I was going to ask the same thing — what are they doing??[/quote]

Mean-girling her out of their friend group for the crime of getting in to her early school while they (apparently, they don’t talk about it) did not get into theirs. I don’t think it’s consciously connected to college admissions but the words PP used to describe DCUM during this period — anxiety, open hostility, and bile — are on regular display. [/quote]

Yikes that’s sad. I’ve been taken aback by hostility & bile here but this is anonymous … hard to imagine this in real life![/quote]

Lots of friend drama senior year in both of my daughter’s friend groups. I always say 7th grade and 12th grade are the worst for girl drama. [/quote]

DD says there is so much bragging at her Nova public by the few girls who got into Ivys already through ED. It makes the kids waiting or rejected/deferred dislike them intensely. Also it's kind of shocking to me since I know the moms of the girls she complains about, and they would be horrified.[/quote]

High schoolers are immature ding dongs.  When I was in high school in the 90s, a girl in my class got in early to Penn, she brought her admissions letter to school the following day in a picture frame, and literally plopped it down on her desk at every class to show it off to everyone.  I didn't realize that it was a big deal at the time (I did not apply to Penn and knew very little about it) but I bet the kids who didn't get into their early schools thought it was so obnoxious.[/quote]

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