<p>Here's the thing.</p>
<p>You seem like a natural genius based on your stats ^.</p>
<p>Me? LOL! :D</p>
<p>No freakin' way. I inherited some smart genes from my dad, but I'm nowhere NEAR that kind of mark. I fervently wish, though! :p</p>
<p>I do have to say that I admire all of you hard-working people. If not for aforementioned smart genes, I'd be a B student in a Honors class at best, with my (lack of) study habits! :D It's going to hamper me in the future, though, and boy, haven't I got a taste of that this year! :(</p>
<p>But my stats seem to be on the low side for CC, and I'm anything but a genius. :p</p>
<p>I don't speak to them that way. I just vent that way.</p>
<p>No one (I hope) is dumb enough to speak to anyone in that manner. :p However, I'd never say anything against my parents, save for minor grievances, and even then, only in a light tone.</p>
<p>I guess I'm just sheltered and can't quite understand that kind of feeling towards one's parents, and I'm sorry for being rather thoughtless by saying what I did.</p>
<p>wow you ppl are under pressure- im chinese, but my parents are kinda like, lol well its pretty funny actually, my parents dont really believe in me and my dad always says things like, uknow, why dont you try (insert local crappy community college) after high school?
maybe i need to switch parents.
but then again, im applying to some prep schools for next yr and my parents are still like, No, dont apply to andover, No, dont apply to exeter. loll</p>
<p>Yeah, well, I joke that either I'm going to Stanford OR Community college... it's one or the other. my parents pretend to not care, but in the end, I think they really do.
Do you ever notice that Asian parents really seem to enjoy comparing their kid's grades? haha.</p>
<p>Me and my mom: I tell them I'm applying to Penn ED and want to apply to M+T to see if I can get into Wharton with engineering as a fall back. My mom says "I thought you wanted to be a doctor, not a businessman" so then I decide to apply to CAS to get her off my back and because I know I have no shot at Wharton anyway. A week after I get in, my mom asks me if I want to consider transfering to Wharton and if it will be hard or not.... :confused:</p>
<p>My parents want me to go to Harvard or some other Ivy League too...but they're still stuck in that Chinese belief that only grades matter and ECs don't, so they want me to quit EVERYTHING my junior year and focus only on SATs and grades O_O. I'm really worried.</p>
<p>x___infatutation...its not a chinese belief...im indian and my parents believe the same thing!!..lol...i told me parents NO and to listen to me for a change..lol</p>
<p>I have a funny story. It isn't about my grades or stats or anything like that, but it was so hilarious I had to share.</p>
<p>We were at the grocery store, checking out. My Asian mom is looking at the little display and asks the cashier what everything costs again after it passes through, because she's "making sure they're not cheating us". It makes me laugh because she is trying so hard to save, maybe, 3 cents, but only looks at those little black numbers on my report card without context. (Case in point: "Why did you get only 98 in biology?" "Because I missed a lab that I can't make up." "Why you miss lab? You skipping school?!?" "No, because you took me to the dentist."</p>
<p>Random, but I thought it was hysterical.</p>
<p>Haha....98 in biology. If I had parents like yours, I'd probably be dead by now.</p>
<p>But my mom is the exact same way with her groceries. And after she buys everything, she sits in the grocery store and looks over the receipt for about 10 minutes to make sure they didn't make any mistakes.</p>
<p>The poor cashier, I felt so sorry for her. I vowed then to never do that to anyone, even if it means losing a couple dollars. {But so, so, funny} </p>
<p>I love my mom, but sometimes she is just so anal about the little things that won't matter tomorrow.</p>
<p>PS: You know, the way she describes being "cheated" out of a nickel on avocadoes makes it sound like the workers have meetings conspiring to charge more than the sticker.</p>
<p>OK, OK, this discussion thread becoming tiresome. Asian parents are sticklers for nickels and dimes and test scores. SO WHAT? Let's move on...</p>
<p>Well, that's sort of the point. {Not that we don't love them, of course}</p>
<p>This thread is insanely funny. I'm Asian too.</p>
<p>yeah my parents used be all "harvard, stanford" too, but they've loosened up a little bit now that i'm too stressed to listen to their monotomous lectures.</p>
<p>Lol. I love this thread. It seems that we azn kids have alot in common regarding our parents. I've been reading through some of them and I can definately relate to most of them. Sigh, I always wondered how my life would have turned out if I had american parents.</p>
<p>I think someone a while back said that Asian kids resent their parents. I don't resent my parents. I just think that their expectations may be a tad high at times. They just need to chillax.</p>
<p>My parents were less about Harvard/MIT and more about, if I don't get into Maryland, they won't pay for me to go to a lower tier private college and that I will have to go to Towson or Frostberg (lower tier state schools in MD) where it will be hard to build myself up to get a respectable job. Note: they did this my first two years of highschool when I had a 4.0 for the first 3 semesters.</p>
<p>lol! this thread is great for laughs.
my mom is your stereotypical asian parent w/ insane expectations. it drives my mom crazy that i read so much. she keeps on telling me "stop wasting your time reading useless material!" (she said this once when i was reading the newspaper. haha) i love reading but in her opinion i waste too much time reading and should be practicing math problems instead.</p>
<p>^My mom does that. She wants me to read textbooks and those dry "classic" novels. I say no way, I want to read about something I want to learn about. I tell her about all of these summer programs and courses, she tells me I should take stuff that helps me graduate early or helps my future career. She doesn't understand the concept of "Learning something interesting".</p>