Orientation - Parents Still in 'competitive' mode

emeraldkity4
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:16:50 +0000

I admit I had a lot of fun at others expense when I ran into this-
I can’t excuse it, other than there was a lot of tension and it was a way to release it I guess.
My daughters school is quite rigoruous, and we were very happy she was accepted, but I hadnt really realized until the orientation, that some kids actually had wanted to attend Yale/UChicago/Columbia
So when parents asked me where else she applied/was accepted, I told them!
I was frank that Evergreen ( an instate public school, that has kinda a “counter culture thang goin on) had been her first choice until recently.
That Reed was the only private school she had applied to & that the only other out of state school was U of O .
If they asked for more details, I was frank that the only way she could have attended was if she was awarded a significant grant and that the whole process was a bit overwhelming to us, since neither of us had attended college.
Oh lawdy- I admit I rubbed it in a bit, but you could jsut see them making calculations " did we make a mistake?”