College Discussion - View Single Post - REFLECTION "I wish I would have known "this" when I started the process!"

chrism · 09-19-2005, 10:19 AM

I appreciate the thoughts, and the reason why I wrote was the statement:
"our children would (somehow!) end up where they should", which to a kid who wasn't accepted and faced 8-10 rejections means that they ended up where they "should" have, ie not in an MT program.

And I don't believe that, actually. Yes, there is growth with rejection, but I simply don't believe that a kid who wasn't accepted "ended up where they should have". I think it's an unfortunate message to send these kids. That was my only point.

And since it's a thread on "what I wish I had known", I personally wish that the kids who were not accepted had kept posting, to provide some balance to the next crop of students. I have a feeling that the ones who did not get good results quietly limped away from the board.

09-19-2005, 10:19 AM	#62
chrism Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Threads: 55 Posts: 621	I appreciate the thoughts, and the reason why I wrote was the statement: "our children would (somehow!) end up where they should", which to a kid who wasn't accepted and faced 8-10 rejections means that they ended up where they "should" have, ie not in an MT program. And I don't believe that, actually. Yes, there is growth with rejection, but I simply don't believe that a kid who wasn't accepted "ended up where they should have". I think it's an unfortunate message to send these kids. That was my only point. And since it's a thread on "what I wish I had known", I personally wish that the kids who were not accepted had kept posting, to provide some balance to the next crop of students. I have a feeling that the ones who did not get good results quietly limped away from the board.