When college kids "Feel like a Fraud"

garland
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:00:43 +0000

My kids went to a school no one here would classify as “demanding.” I don’t think either felt like imposters at the “elite” colleges they attended in any way. They did feel, particularly my D, that they had to do some extra work to catch up on what they didn’t know–I remember her talking about how she and a friend from a rural Midwest school would keep lists of all the references to historical stuff in their poli sci classes (no AP World History in their high schools), and head to the library after class to look up stuff. But she felt that as simply a lack of information, not as a reflection on her abilities.