SAT before 13th (urban legend or true?)

Consolation
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 09:39:49 +0000

I think that is a very unfair characterization. I just see people offering sympathy to kids who didn’t get into their first choice school, and a balanced view that they will go somewhere, and it will be good for the kid in the long run.

Is it a crime to actually have Yale as your first choice? It was S’s first choice, and he was deferred SCEA. His classmate was accepted. By the time S got to school on Monday morning someone–not us–had told everyone and he had to put up with people offering sympathy. It was pretty humiliateing for him. I actually had someone stop me in the supermarket and express shock.

You know, it is possible for a kid to have an Ivy as a first choice because they actually like THAT school.