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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope PP and their student are OK, but this is classic DMV or DCUM bubble-speak. This is not meant as disrespect.

Your student's stats are phenomenal by almost any measure. It is the expectation and perspective that is off. The expectation for this process is to have target schools including a couple leaning yes, a couple safeties that are absolute yes - and that the student feels good about them. The reaches are by definition just that, reaches. Then at the end you have 2, 3 maybe 4 to choose from (unless you ED binding of course). That is if you feel that "choices" is a sign of success, which is odd because a student can only attend one college.

Setting the right list early, setting the perspective are both critical - the truth is that attending any school in the top 50 in the USA is terrific and students do well after they finish at all of them. So much more than the name of the school at work.

If your student is smart enough to work for and achieve those results in HS, they are going to be fine, better than fine. They need perspective from someone, and then they need to go off to college and have fun for a month or two then never think about this process again.

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Well said PP[/quote]

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