<p>see, if you were actually creative with your insults to harvey mudd, you could use the following:</p>
<p>mUdd --(rotate "mUd" around "U")--> dmUd --(mirror word)-->dUmb</p>
<p>but it took a Mudd student to come up with that one so too bad. Some of us are mUdd while the rest are dUmb. :)</p>
<p>Not always true. My parents just want me to go to the nearest college to my house (UIUC) so that I won't go off and romp about with the wrong people and...heaven forbid...fall in love with a non-Indian boy! GASP, the horror.</p>
<p>It sucks.</p>
<p>And it's truly hard growing up an Asian American.</p>
<p>I guess I'm lucky. My Chinese parents were raised in poor peasent families, which don't seem to be quite as restrictive as some of the traditional middle-upper class Chinese families, so they never really pressured me too much. Sure they wanted me to the ivies and work hard in school, but they're not cutthroat about it. At least they're willing to look on the college rankings for less well known schools like CMU and Tufts and still be relatively satisfied with them.</p>
<p>I concur immensely based on the responses given the past 10+ pages.</p>
<p>Which major do most Asian parents prize? Medicine? Computer eng? Just curious...</p>
<p>This thread's existence should, by itself, make it OK to talk about stereotypical asian-american culture.</p>
<p>Has anyone made the joke yet about, "How do you know your house has been hit by an asian burglar?"</p>
<p>Your room is clean, your homework is done, and on the way out of the driveway, they knocked over your mailbox.</p>
<p>Here is a story that you may appreciate. When my daughter told people that she will be attending Amherst, the most common response she got from people around here (central Pennsylvania) was that if she would do well at Amherst, she could always transfer to Penn State after her first year.</p>
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Asian parents want their kids to go into medicine or law. My mom keeps on reminding me that a doctor or a lawyer in the family would be nice, and I just roll my eyes.</p>
<p>"So many people have told me im going to US because its 'easier'.. had my parents and all not been there I would have slapped them"</p>
<p>So well said man ... Being an indian is not easy ....</p>
<p>"Being an Indian is not easy...."</p>
<p>Yeah, tell me about it.</p>
<p>AZN Pride. lol
anywho
i am considered as "not" bright asian... i am not that smart or bright.I just work hard as I can- sometimes the results may not be satisfying-. </p>
<p>I live in NC where there are some good colleges and i know many asians that went to Duke, UNC-ch but their major change during their college years and get dejected by grad schools after finishing undergrad. Maby that is why there are few "asians" in the top "richest people". Du no, but just a thought</p>
<p>it may not be the asian students who are Obsessed with Ivy but the "brainwash" of asain parents that make asian students obsessed with Ivys.</p>
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it may not be the asian students who are Obsessed with Ivy but the "brainwash" of asain parents that make asian students obsessed with Ivys.
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True. My parents tried to make me believe that the Ivy League was the most important thing in the world. Fortunately, I didn't buy any of that crap.</p>
<p>^^^^So what did you do? Decided to go to a lower-ranked school?</p>
<p>Relax. Don't hate. There's always a reason. The parents' hearts are in the right places, and the one browbeating brainwashee is not a posterchild for the Asian American at large.</p>
<p>Dude, and trying to explain how growing up as an Asian American is hard is futile. It doesn't sound daring like growing up in some drug-addled gang neighborhood; most of us are middle class. It's a lot of awkward gray area, miscommunication, and clash of culture between generations, but when you try to turn it into words it becomes one hell of a weak sauce story to try to sell.</p>
<p>I think that a lot of asian parents care more for their children's financial well-being than do Caucasian parents (who seem to focus on their kids' emotional health more). In countries in Asia, getting into a university is a huge deal because decades ago the % of those who went to college in China was something like 1% (now, it's about 25%). They then naturally value the college education and because Ivies are known to give the "best" education, Asian parents push their kids to go to those schools.</p>
<p>It is ridiculously wrong to say that only Asian students or parent are obsess with Ivies as if that would have been the case then Ivies would have had similar representation of Asians as UCs. The obsession is most in Whites about the Ivies. </p>
<p>You need to go to the right school to see such obsession. You get to see the top cream of Asian in US public school that would have been the snootiest persons back in their countries. But you don't get to see the top white US cream in public school as most of those will send their children to top private prep schools. So if you go to such school then you will find that those white students and their parent are much more obsessive about Ivies than the Asian students or parent.</p>
<p>So, American parents care more about prestige in the Ivy name than providing their kids with the happiest future?</p>
<p>^^^: Certainly then why do you think that there are more White students at Ivies than UCs and also check out why Ivies recruit more from private schools. Because most of the obsessive white American send their children to private schools.</p>
<p>Also today's society is all about perception and we American are big fan of perception than reality.</p>