<p>Great thread and something I’m dealing with my daughter right now. The problem is that she is the one that keeps doing the comparisons even though I try so hard to tell her how different it was ‘back in the day’. My well-meaning but misguided parents told her every single college I got accepted to - all schools that are out of her reach. Now she feels like she’s somehow not good enough and she’s having a major confidence crisis. The funny part is that while I did really well on SATs, my grades were just okay. The kicker for me at the time was going to a top boarding school - that was back in the day where that mean you were a shoo in.</p>