<p>"I understand this frenzy is not good but do you think we can just let our child lay back and goto community college."</p>
<p>It's amusing (really sad) that some parents have the mentality that not getting into an Ivy implies community college. It's not necessarily the university that determines future success, but the -student-. I was seriously debating Yale versus full-ride at a state school, because both would prepare me well for grad school. I appreciate my parents helping me foster my work ethic, and exposing me to opportunities that made me academically and socially more mature; the prestige of an Ivy was not the ultimate goal, but a happy by-product. Every person accepted into an Ivy that I know wasn't purely motivated by prestige; they all had something they thoroughly loved doing, and excelled at.</p>