Ahhhhh-- but that's life, as they say. To plan to out-compete others for an opportunity, only to find that the bar has been moved while you were focused on the (previous) criteria.

Happens all. the. time. Everywhere. Always has.


My daughter gets HER grades without "extra credit" and "re-sets" of assignments, too. But most of her "competition" doesn't.

Should she feel angry that she does it "the hard way?"

I don't think so. Nobody can take that away from her, and SHE knows that she earned it the old-fashioned way-- which is something to be personally pretty proud of, IMO.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.