Is spike absolutely necessary for Stanford/Harvard/Ivys?

NiceUnparticularMan
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:28:11 +0000

I will just note that one of the things I learned going through all this with my S24 is that no matter what sort of messaging I had about topics like college choice, college admissions, and so on, that isn’t going to stop kids from also listening to their peers sometimes.

So as a parent, I think you can try to be informed, consistent, supportive, and so on, as best you can. But at least I couldn’t entirely protect my kid from stress, anxiety, disappointment, and so on. I could just put whatever weight I had on the more positive side of the emotional scale as appropriate, and the rest was really out of my control.