<p>One of the best best parts of joining CC when your kid is still a sophomore or junior is that you can practice-run the admissions year before you actually have to face it. And since all of the decisions went out in March, one of the biggest trends I've seen is kids devaluing the schools that accepted them & longing all the more for the ones that turned them away (or even worse, put them on the dreaded waitlist...is there any fate worse than having false hopes dangled in front of you).</p>
<p>In any case, I can't blame the parents or the kids. I'm constantly second-guessing everything from vacation rentals ("if the hotel still has rooms available for me, how good can it be?") to menu orders. But I have to say that its comforting to know that these emotions still lay ahead for me and the family.....and I'll recognize them when i see them.</p>
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<p>A variant would be all of the students who cannot find safeties to apply to, since anything that could possibly be a safety for them is “beneath” them.</p>
<p>Another variant would be students whose high school performance was so poor that their best college option is to go to the community college to try to make a turnaround and transfer to a good state university, but the students think that the community college is “beneath” them.</p>
<p>I hope that’s not me next year but I can definitely understand the sentiment. They’re hurt that they didn’t get accepted into their top choice that they fantasized about for the past 4 years of their life. And since they were too caught up in the dream, they didn’t have an opportunity to fall in love with their safeties. I fear that might be me next year but if anything, after seeing this particular class moan so much, I’m going to apply to even more safeties and matches while dropping some “reach” schools I probably never would have attended anyways.</p>