<p>I am a director of a summer camp for elementary age kids and (this is just anecdotal) appprox. 1/3 of the kids are on some kind of behavioral/mental disorder medication ranging from ADHD med, to anti-anxiety meds, to anti-psychotic meds (for an 8 yr. old!!). Our camp nurse verifies that it is becoming a much bigger issue than 10 years ago when she started at the camp. I can imagine that this applies to college-aged kids as well. </p>
<p>And, just for the record, I’m on the laid-back parent team. My kids never knew their GPA’s until final transcript after graduation. Although D knew she was in top 10% for in-state acceptance purposes. We also have no idea what our kids IQs are, they took the SAT once and it was “good enough” and they only take the AP tests to get out of taking finals.</p>