@momofsenior1. Excellent post and should be stickied. I tell the people here what I told my kids. It’s not about you. It’s about the class they are building. Don’t take it personally. My son applied to more selective schools then my daughter and he rarely checked his portals at schools. He never told us what his number 1 school was but we had a clue. His attitude was “it doesn’t make a difference”. He told us that after the rejections and wait list he will see what’s left and go from there. It was like the rejections actually helped him narrow down his list for him. He ended up at the best school for him and he is making the most of it and having a great time.
As we told them both. “You will get accepted, rejected and wait listed by some really great schools” and they did.!