Orientation - Parents Still in 'competitive' mode

apple17
Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:33:54 +0000

Calmom, I don’t know why you’re not going, but I don’t know that I found out anything new at the orientation:


We went to 5 or so accepted student events, and my impression is that most schools do things pretty much the same way (at least the schools we visited).
The info at the orientation wasn’t much different than the accepted student events.
Reading ‘letting go’ answered my questions better regarding what to expect as we move forward.


In reading the responses here, I suppose there were many students / parents that were still ‘smarting’ from rejections. We were pretty realistic as to where my S would get admitted and he refused to take SAT IIs, so that ruled out applying ‘too high’. Thanks for the perspective. I’ll try to be more tolerant.