Just bad parenting puts a kid in the position where he or she is sitting in front of a college coach weeks after finishing 8th grade under duress to agree to a college.

Cry me a river blaming everyone else. The narcissism and myopia is fueled by parents who drive kids to these colleges considering they are only 14 years old. No wait, I'm from Maryland...those parents who let their kids drive to these things when they are only 16 year old 8th graders.