<p>Focusing in the OP posting, I feel that sometimes parents try to live in their children what they couldn?t live themselves. Some parents are not only pushing their kids to be Ivy leaguers but brainwashing their kids about entitlement to get into top schools below the Ivies, if these kids get rejected or waitlisted, they will be the worst sufferers in the class, they will be dealing with denial and sadness. We have to open the doors for ours kids letting them to make their own decisions for the future.</p>