[单项选择]In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true gladiators. We’re pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT prep courses and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice. We say our motives are selfless and sensible. A degree from Stanford or Princeton is the ticket for life. If Aaron and Nicole don’t get in, they’re forever doomed. Gosh, we’re delusional.
I’ve twice been to the wars, and as I survey the battlefield, something different is happening. It’s one-upmanship among parents. We see our kids’ college pedigrees as trophies attesting to how well--or how poorly--we’ve raised them. But we can’t acknowledge that our obsession is more about us than them. So we’ve contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths. It actually doesn’t matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford.
Admissions anxiety afflicts only a minority of parents. It’s true that getting into college has generally become tough
A. Selective Schools.
B. Prestige Panic.
C. Desperate Parents.
D. Success in the Future.

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