Air Academy HS
Alexander Dawson School (CO)
Arapahoe HS (CO)
Bear Creek HS
Bishop Machbeuf HS (CO)
Boulder HS
Broomfield HS
Castleview HS
Cedar Ridge Academy (CO)
Centennial HS
Cherry Creek HS
Cherokee Trail HS
Cheyenne Mountain HS
Colorado Academy
Columbine HS
Compass Montessori (CO)
Conifer HS (CO)
Custer County HS
Denver Academy
Denver East HS
Denver School for the Arts
Denver Waldorf School
D’Evelyn HS
Douglas County HS
Elizabeth HS
Fairview HS
George Washington HS (Denver)
Grandview HS (CO)
Grand Junction HS (Colorado)
Highlands Ranch HS (CO)
Kent Denver School
Kiowa HS (CO)
Lakewood HS (CO)
Lewis Palmer HS (CO)
Littleton HS
Middle Park HS (CO)
Monarch HS
Mountain Vista HS (CO)
Mullen HS (CO)
New Hope Academy
Niwot HS
Overland HS (CO)
Palisade HS (CO)
Peak to Peak Charter School (Colorado)
Pine Creek HS (CO)
Ralston Valley HS (CO)
Regis Jesuit HS (Denver)
Rock Canyon HS (Colorado)
Smoky Hill HS (CO)
Summit County HS
Valor Christian HS (CO)
Watershed School (CO)

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April is the cruelest month. Especially in the college admissions business.
With admissions rates plummeting into the low single digits at some schools, April is inevitably a month of disappointment for literally hundreds of thousands of students across the country, and across the world. Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and MIT reject tens of thousands of kids with perfect test scores, perfect grades, perfectly groomed resumes, and perfectly written essays.

As Kilgore Trout, the hero of many of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, might say: “And so it goes.”

A recent editorial in the New York Times penned by Frank Bruni delves into this cruel system of college admissions. He doesn’t try to make sense of it. Rather, he reminds students (and their parents) of what is important. He doesn’t yammer on about “sour grapes” or argue that getting into an elite college is not worth the attempt.

Rather, he aims to point toward aspects of life that matter more than the name on one’s diploma.

Here are a choice couple of paragraphs from the article:

Your diploma is, or should be, the least of what defines you. Show me someone whose identity is rooted in where he or she went to college. I’ll show you someone you really, really don’t want at your Super Bowl party.

And your diploma will have infinitely less relevance to your fulfillment than so much else: the wisdom with which you choose your romantic partners; your interactions with the community you inhabit; your generosity toward the family that you inherited or the family that you’ve made.

I make my living helping kids achieve their dreams. But what I tell them all the time is that one’s college is but a vehicle toward those dreams. The college itself is not the dream. Of course, it can be pretty darned sweet to be one of the lucky ones to land a coveted place at an über-selective college or university. And yet admission buys neither success nor happiness.

These life goals can be achieved by any number of different educational routes. And the most lucky ones are those who keep their eyes on their dreams and refuse to let disappointment lose their focus on what is important in life. Getting rejected from Ivy League or any school is not the end of the world.

Mark Montgomery
College Admissions Expert
 
 
 

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