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OP ... I vote with the BACK OFF crowd. Your DD is fine. I also send sympathy, because been there, done that. DD top student (literally, val) We never nagged her to do stuff, we yelled at her to STOP doing stuff and go to bed. Did she pick a college summer after JR. year? NO. Did she look at the common app during the summer? NO. Did she do the summer reading. NO. She needed a break and took it.
She still got into a good school. She didn't do the summer reading for college much in advance either, but skimmed the book on the plane. She said she'd read more than most of her freshman seminar group.
A driven, great kid like yours CAN go off the rails, but usually I see a flame-out complete change. She is just taking a well-deserved break.
Oh, and my D finished her last college app at 11 pm on the day they were due, leaving me to franticly try to get through the servers to pay. I paid Harvard twice because I wasn't sure that it got in (and they never sent a refund for the extra. They also rejected DD so now I hate them ... jk).
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