Agree with @one1ofeach great advice to lean into the things she loves. Also, would suggest that if she loved Lville, she may actually just be loving prep school! So maybe just gently keep an open mind that other schools might fit the bill too. And finally: know that a LOT of people aren’t “prepping” several years in advance in order to get into prep school. There is a part of me that would hesitate to fixate too much on any single “only great outcome” because gosh – what a crazy amount of pressure (especially for a 13 year old) that would be going into that app cycle after 3 years of this being THE BIG DREAM. Dreams that have only one acceptable outcome might benefit from becoming a little more robust in scope. (And feel free to ignore that if it doesn’t feel right for you and your family. You know yourselves.)
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