<p>“However, I want to make sure I have never and will never seek perfection in either of my kids.”</p>
<p>Oh, please, Dad II, don’t play us small, as Oprah would say.
You asked if there was hope left for your ds when he committed the horrible crime of getting a B in AP History. You said above that an ACT of 31 is on the low side for a senior and berated your daughter for not getting her 34 up to 35. How is that not seeking perfection?</p>
<p>You have deliberately guided your daughter to a situation in which she has only one safety school she’s been encouraged not to feel good about because it’s “only” a state school and what-would-the-family-think, and the rest of her schools are reaches for ANYONE, just because that’s how it goes, when you would have been better served to get off the elite bandwagon and look for some other fine safety schools, even if they didn’t impress the folks back in China.</p>