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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I, personally, would be worried. If you have to drag your kid over the finish line that may not bode well for that first year of college. [/quote]This. If you encouraged and supported but the drive came primarily from the kid, no excessive pushing and no tutoring needed for the AP classes, then OP's kid will be ok. IF the kid got there by being helicoptered and tutored well beyond their natural ability and drive, the ivy will suck the life out of them. Ivies are full of self disciplined highly organized students who are the top 1% intelligence, with fast processing skills in addition to self confidence and advocacy skills.Those who come in without all or at least most of those skills adapt fast to the peer group and can succeed there. The bottom third are the ones who did not have those skills when they got in; they struggle. -parent of two kids at ivies, got themselves there unhooked and rose to the top easily over the less capable[/quote]
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