Parents Using College Acceptances to Compete

poetgrl
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:08:08 +0000

My kids and all of their friends all wear each other’s school gear. My daughter started collecting college t-shirts and sweats when she was first playing travel soccer, and I think she must have at least a t-shirt from 300 colleges. She wears them indiscriminately. She is kind of known for this, and all of her friends brought her t-shirts back from where they got in or wherever they went this last year.

I assume she is going to need an extra suitcase when she comes back from school so that everyone gets something from her school on her thanksgiving break.

We have friends with kids going all over the country, and all over the map of selectivity. I’m thrilled for all of them and would never be insulted by a parent posting acceptances if that was their thing. The one most enthusiastic parent I know, who is just all about this, didn’t go to college herself and the whole thing has just been very exciting. Of course, you can’t help but love her since she posted the rejections too.

I didn’t post anything, but I never post anything on facebook anyway, just tend to “like” other people’s posts.