<p>I like how the top three UC schools have reached >40% Asian, as of Fall 2006. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Hmmm... my parents weren't really that strict with me. I think they gave up on me when i was a freshman in high school because i had few B's... (one major reason was I never could make A's in math.)</p>
<p>They kind of expected my older bro (older siblings usually take on this role, no?) to be the smart one in the family. On the other hand, I already knew what I wanted to do with my life (I was either in the 8th or 9th grade when I decided this) and my parents fully supported my goal. (i wanted to be either an animator or graphic novel artist) and I still do... so (i'm a freshman in college btw)</p>
<p>They never pressured me as much as they were like "ok..." even when i got my first C in AP Chem... because that has nothing to do with my future career, haha. They just told me to draw alot.</p>
<p>i wasn't really that ambitious about college in the first place and my bro on the other hand was rather ambitious about his college choices. He applied to mostly top schools and got into an Ivy. I applied to a private school in california (USC woot trojans) and I was happy about getting in although it wasn't OMG an 'ivy.'</p>
<p>I mean if your parents push you, at least try and then you have a good excuse, i guess.</p>
<p>Hey kguo, is Norm Chow part asian? I thought he was white. That's pretty cool. Although I hate the fins.</p>
<p>Although I'm asian, my parents are really cool. My dad said I can go wherever I want as long as Im happy. Of course my grandparents are way different, and pressured my dad like crazy to get into a prestigous college. My point is, if we eventually learn from our parents' unfairness or fairness, this problem will eventually disappear.</p>
<p>I rather wish I had those parents... Not that mine didn't care about me, but they didn't push me much. Now I'm a junior who works his ass off but I just wish I'd done more earlier.</p>
<p>ha, my asian parents tell me that they just want me to be happy, but they have their personal security ingrained in my own motivation
they did, however, convince me to change my intended major from something in business to a medical school pathway</p>
<p>don't go to overrated schools</p>
<p><em>Daniel</em> I'm in the same exact position you're in, except that I'm going to be a senior.</p>
<p>all this talk reminds me of the joy luck club. the competition between waverly jong and jin-mei woo. sounds like a lot of what you guys are talkingg about here. does anybody else here love amy tan's writing?</p>
<p>hmm strange, I'm asian, but my parents wanted me to go to a very very non-presitigious school for a free ride cuz they think every degree is the same so mm good thing i learned to NOT listen to them before college apps :) i don't think i'd be happy at the school where everybody in my school goes if they were in the lowest classes possible</p>
<p>I know kids who came out of SUNY's who are way better off now than IVYs'</p>
<p>"the most common story I hear in school is kids wanting to go into music or becoming a writer, and parents refusing to pay for tuition unless they go into a biology major."
-Cannot believe that. Amazing...</p>
<p>'I know kids who came out of SUNY's who are way better off now than IVYs'"
-Encouraging. </p>
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<p>kguo7 - Nice post.</p>
<p>I have the exact opposite problem.</p>
<p>I picked out my entire college list by myself, and am doing all of my applications 100% by myself. </p>
<p>Dad mumbles every now and then about the state university and how it's not worth it to go anywhere else, and if you want to go out of state, you better find money...how do you plan to get some money? Freshman year of highschool I dreamed about going to Dartmouth, and he crushed me by saying it didn't matter where I went, that Dartmouth wasn't worth the money, and that he would never help pay for it. </p>
<p>It made me mad that he was right. I kind of want to go to a cool, prestigious, pretty school. But I guess I can be happy anywhere :(.</p>
<p>I am an azn student and i have seen this ridiculous pressure parents place on their kids about college and school. Luckily my mom didn't exert any pressure on me about my college apps, she just told me to go with the school i liked and i couldn't be more grateful for that. College Apps in itself is stressful enough, we don't need outside pressure and constant nagging about our apps, who is going to spend four years of their lives here? there that is all i have to say about asian parents!</p>
<p>Haha. Although I understand it's part of asian culture, for some reason I want to scream at the group of asians that makes up 60 percent of the ivy league campus tours and tell them that there are indeed other good schools. I'm not bitter about the competition, I just feel like there's no thought involved in the selection. </p>
<p>It's like, "IVY GOOD, IVY GOOD, MY SON MUST GO TO IVY GOOD SCHOOL." And sure, the culture explains most of it, but it would be great if some people could say - HI THERE, SCHOOLS LIKE SWARTHMORE, AMHERST, AND WILLIAMS are just as good. I especially love how there's data that proves that qualified kids that could have chosen the ivy league and went somewhere else are making JUST AS MUCH money as those who went the ivy route.</p>
<p>Today my parents told me that if I didn't apply to Stanford, they wouldn't let me apply anywhere else. They only like Stanford because it's in San Francisco, which has a lot of Asians, and they want to move to San Francisco. Applying to Stanford is also a real pain because they don't take Common App.</p>
<p>Stanford's in Palo Alto.</p>
<p>hahahaha...you think asian culture is bad...try having middle eastern parents. If i dont get in an ivy league WITH a full scholarship, i have to go to the community college WITH a full scholarship.</p>
<p>near it lol</p>
<p>I think the reason asians get into top schools is because they have more dicipline than american students....they are not naturally smart. Their culture teaches them dicipline and diciplines them...i admire that.</p>
<p>trust me, you shouldn't.</p>