<p>Yeah I'm still mad at the guy and his partner over a root canal that only lessened, did not cure the offending toothache, but she thinks he hung the moon.</p>
<p>Speaking of kids sometimes needing to hear things and get impetus from 3rd parties - I had mentioned Dartmouth a couple of times because it fit many of her parameters, but was a little larger than some of her other choices (a characteristic her Dad and thought might be more attractive to our DD as an actual college student vs DD the applying high school senior), but hadn't pushed it because she was so adamantly anti-Greek, and it seemed hard to get to from anywhere else. So this guy comes along, cleans her teeth, she doesn't know him from Job's housecat - and he's an expert on college admissions! I guess that's about the same amount of knowledge as we have acquired!</p>