<p>Whos driving and whos the backseat driver?</p>
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<p>Woodwork, wow, you said what I have been thinking while reading many of the posts here on the parents board in the past few weeks. The sense that I am getting is that the current crop of "CC parents" is more obsessed with getting their kids into the "best" school than in the past. The obsession with "packaging" their kids correctly is really getting to me right now in a way it has never gotten to me in the past. I often wonder, "are the kids thinking about how to package themselves as much as the parents are?"</p>
<p>And, why should kids be "packaged" at all? There are at least 200-300 colleges and universities in this country where one can get a very decent education. The vast majority of those schools accept more students than they turn away. Why all this angst? Why is it seen as a "failure" if your child is rejected from a few schools? What message are we sending to our children?</p>