<p>Kelly37, right. Rubyjane1, aside from your personal critique, aren’t you more concerned about the gravity of the situation? There are inconsistencies in the OP’s posts which send out red flags: </p>
<p>The OP’s stats:" Quite honestly, I feel like I barely got into BC in the first place (29 ACT, 1990 SAT)". Not competitive for BC, yet she was offered honors?</p>
<p>640/Math SAT, 28 Math/ACT, yet 800 Math II? </p>
<p>OP: “I’m extremely under pressure and feel like **** on a daily basis. I feel like this school places so much emphasis on being perfect that it’s suffocating me.” This is her course load: Chem major then, Human Dev and Psych double-major w/ minors in Special Ed and Hispanic Studies: “1st sem: Hon Chem I, Hon Chem Lab I, Calculus I, Physics I w/calc, Physics I lab, 2 Ed classes/ 2nd sem: Hon Chem II, Hon Chem Lab II, Calculus II, Physics II w/calc, Physics II lab, Ed class, Writing” with a 3.9 GPA. Who is striving for perfection here? She puts demands on herself which she projects onto others. </p>
<p>BC didn’t cause her eating disorders and depression; she had them already “… slip into depressive symptoms, feelings of low self worth, etc. As a side note, I AM diagnosed as bipolar.” </p>
<p>Word choice: at her high school she felt “less paranoid… knew right away if they were an ally or an enemy.” Paranoid? Ally or enemy? These are her peers; not allies or enemies.</p>
<p>OP: “The counselors at BC say … anxiety and depression-related symptoms come from being surrounded by too many people unlike me (I am a Mexican-American woman from a middle class family in the Midwest).” What counselor would say this? </p>
<p>mn20270603; never posted before except now which conveniently backs up everything the OP is saying. The posts are strikingly similar…</p>
<p>Uses an international website to reach the largest possible audience to vent and disparage her friends, identifying herself in such detail she is easily recognizable. Why do this if not to hurt others and herself or as a desperate cry for attention?</p>
<p>I am troubled and contemplated informing college officials but felt it wasn’t my place. I don’t know what to believe; this is so bizarre. Rubyjane1, the BC parents posting here care deeply about the students and really do believe in service to others and helping one another. We are older with life experience (we have made many mistakes, been there done that and so on) that younger people don’t yet have. This is a forum where advice is sought and given, and where sometimes the answers are not what OPs want to hear. </p>
<p>So what to do?</p>