Husband blames me for S's waitlist

mathmom
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:28:16 +0000

Wow, news flash to all 'rents whose child didn’t get into Harvard. It IS your fault.

And how about my son who got into Harvard, but not MIT where he wanted to attend? Whose fault was that? We all thought he was a better fit for MIT, but apparently H’s need for diversity included computer nerds and MIT’s didn’t. (He didn’t attend either school in the end.)

At the time I felt rather annoyed with MIT because I didn’t like their admission criteria. Now (four years later) I’m more inclined to blame my son for not understanding (or at least being unwilling to play) the admissions game. That said I always figured that his chances at Harvard were 1 in 2 and his chances at MIT were 1 in 4, so I wasn’t really surprised. He landed in a great place and has a dream job offer, so we can’t complain how it all turned out.