Early Decision Dilemma

hmom5
Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:46:26 +0000

First, I am very sorry to hear your grandmother is ill and I hope she has a speedy recovery. Yet I don’t see how this impacts the college situation.

I am a mother as you say, and I have counseled my kids to understand what their word means.

If I am understanding your last post correctly, you are saying that peer pressure is influencing your cousin to hold out for a better school. In what possible way is this acceptable? If she’s smart enough to have been wait listed at Brown, surely she is smart enough to have thought through the decision to apply ED. If indeed peer pressure is to only go to an ivy, I’m sure she understood that before applying.

It just sound like she wants her cake and to eat it too. Certainly not unusual, but not the mark of a young adult who understands commitment.