What should Daughter Say?

TheGFG
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:32:50 +0000

D and I have been honest about where she’s applying. It seems to work well, because she’s kind of a surprise achiever and so I get the impression people just think she’s delusional about getting into schools of that caliber. Thus, they feel mildly disdainful at her foolishness rather than competitive or jealous. No one has asked class rank to my knowledge, but when her SAT score became somewhat public knowledge (inadvertently) people then asked her “Are you going to be the Val?” She’s probably not, so that was fine and caused no jealousy either.