<p>I think the comments were funny and a way for stressed-out GCs to blow off some steam. For a similar thread on CC written by prep school applicants see
<a href=“Bad Rejection Letters - Prep School Cafe - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-cafe/1616043-bad-rejection-letters-p1.html</a></p>
<p>We’ve been lucky to have strong college counseling. Our first child’s GC put quite a few schools on his list that we didn’t know and others we wouldn’t have thought of as matches for him. To my mind that’s one of the marks of good college counseling. Anyone can find great aspirational schools. The trick is to find good likely schools. </p>
<p>Fast forward two years and one of the same college showed up on child #2’s list. I don’t think she’ll end up applying but apparently when she and her friends were discussing their lists of suggested schools some of her classmates made fun of the this school because they’d never heard of it. I was please to hear my child had the good sense to snap back, “[X school] has one of the best programs in the country for . Just because YOU haven’t heard of it doesn’t mean it’s not a great school.”</p>