<p>Tiger Mom works?
OR LEGAAAAAAAAAACY</p>
<p>haha jk (well kind of). Girl's super accomplished and more than likely has extremely good stats.
;)</p>
<p>Her daughter also started a blog apparently.</p>
<p>What does this have to do with UCB?
The whole Amy Chua’s story is not worth to discuss.</p>
<p>Because freshmen scheduling discussions are so much more entertaining.</p>
<p>I think that’s pretty interesting! Thanks for posting, Batman17.</p>
<p>Sometimes I wish my mom was like that. Maybe not to the extent described by Chua, but at least push me to achieve. Instead, my mom actually discouraged me from trying too hard from school because she was worried I’d go insane from stress.</p>
<p>Chua’s daughter used Berkeley as her safety school.</p>
<p>She only applied to three schools apparently. Yale ED, Harvard, and U of V. And then she pulled her app to UV. Talk about confident</p>
<p>so, if chuas daughter applied to Berkeley, that could have been another safety school for her.</p>
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there’s a difference between being confident and knowing the results for a fact. i mean come on, her mommy works at yale and was at harvard for several years as a student herself.</p>
<p>& for those of you out there who know the quote:</p>
<p>“I’m sweating more than a non-legacy applying to Yale”</p>
<p>I feel that they are stressing the Tiger mom aspect too much. Lots of Asian kids had moms like that, but weren’t as successful. I doubt that their success has much to do with race. I mean, we could just as easily say that the daughter is successful because of the Jewish dad.</p>
<p>I heard someone say that the only reason Chua was popular was because she was the first one to write about it. </p>
<p>But I doubt it.</p>
<p>It’s not that Chua’s daughter was confident. She applied early to Yale and was accepted; her only additional application was to Harvard because she would have chosen Yale over other safeties. I feel honored that her safety was Berkeley; it shows that her next choice would have been Berkeley, demonstrating the fact that Berkeley is highly respected.</p>
<p>Actually, her grandfather is an emeritus professor here at Berkeley for EECS. That guy discovered some cool stuff and has a wall displaying his inventions/books in corey.</p>
<p>I know several white kids who had very easy going parents who motivated themselves to study and work hard, and they ended up at Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Stanford, ect…</p>
<p>I don’t think race/technique has anything to do with it. Really.</p>
<p>I think (?) her husband is a law professor at Yale.</p>
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<p>Really? It seems like it is a combination of biology and culture, especially the latter. Otherwise, I think we’d have many more Hispanics and African-Americans in school.</p>
<p>where does it say she applied to Berkeley. She went harvard yale and U of V only. Pulled U of V because of ED from Yale.</p>
<p>lonesoul- I meant that if she applied to Berkeley, that could have been another safety school for her.</p>
<p>^^ I bet she’d be a little tiger! xD</p>
<p>Her mom would force her daughter to break up with you because she found out you only got into Berkeley.
When you show Amy that Berkeley is the number 1 public university, she takes your data and throws it back in your face, screaming “NOT GOOD ENOUGH.”</p>