Orientation - Parents Still in 'competitive' mode

calmom
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:48:57 +0000

Well, Apple, you make me happy I won’t be attending my daughter’s orientation. (It doesn’t happen until the week before school starts in any case).

I do think that if your kid is attending the sort of mid-first tier school that is frequently used as a safety for more prestigious schools, you will find that many people have a hard time letting go of their dreams. My son found when he started at his LAC that most of the kids he met were still stinging from their rejections from Yale & Harvard; many were already planning their transfer apps.

I’m sorry that so many people are double-depositing – it may be a problem for colleges in the fall if there is a substantial fall off between the numbers who said they would come and the numbers who arrive on campus.