<p>this is sad^^^ ;<em>; ;</em>; ;_;</p>
<p>the ivy league is just an athletic conference....why don't u just go mingle with other asians at MIT, Caltech, and other engineering schools. At least those are what i m shooting for. I would rather go to MIT than that "other" school across the river.</p>
<p>my parents are the opposite..they think either i can't get into a normal college, but they wanted me to apply to a medical program. and they hypocritically told me i couldn't apply to any private schools, but they wanted me to sit down and apply to the early medical thing. </p>
<p>sucks about parents..just less than a year though!!</p>
<p>The worst i think....is when your brother is a extreme genius and gets into WASH U and then your parents just don't even expect you to do as well......story of my life</p>
<p>i think it's really weird how in some families one kid is held up to a much higher standard than the other...like one kid will go to state school and the parents will be like oh that's fine and then they'll force their other kid to apply to hypsm.</p>
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think it's really weird how in some families one kid is held up to a much higher standard than the other...like one kid will go to state school and the parents will be like oh that's fine and then they'll force their other kid to apply to hypsm.
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How is this weird? Um, everyone's different? One kid may not be much in academics but really good at something else? Unless they're twins...</p>
<p>Yeah, I know exactly what it's like with those types of parents, I grew up with them nagging on me about going to "Harvard, MIT, Yale".
Right now, I live with my dad and his "new wife" (whom I absolutely despise), and it is now only my dad who nags me about this stuff, switching into two different opposites, either, "Oh, you should go to Harvard" or "Oh, you won't make it into a college at all!". It really gets annoying, but whatever, I am not even going to look at any of the Ivies.</p>
<p>haha it's ok.
my mom thinks getting one 90 with others above 94 means i don't get into even the smallest UC in california.</p>
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<li>i go to like one of the top 3 best private school in my country..</li>
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<p>Yeah… my parents basically think that if I take the weekend off from studying that I’m ‘slacking off’ and that if I just cruise for the final stretch of the year that I’m no good for anything but a CC… never mind that I got into my first choice…</p>
<p>I’m Asian and my parents just want me to use my potential to the max and get into the college that is right for me. I’m in a somewhat similiar situation as OP, but not something as narrowminded as the OP’s parents are.</p>
<p>If I were you I wouldn’t be complaining. It’d be a godsend if my parents wanted me to go to an Ivy. Instead they said they wouldn’t allow me to go anywhere other than the state school and made me live at home. </p>
<p>Be careful what you wish for.</p>
<p>My dad is chill about everything and thinks I’m overworking ymself with my AP/Honors classes and ambitions. He tells me to just go to any university and life will be okay. He even told me it’s okay to start over at community college again if I fail my education. Also, he encourages me to join the military and all that. When I told him I want to become a doctor, he told me that it’s too hard and I should either stay in the military or be an engineer.</p>
<p>My mom is the ivy league type though who wants me to become a leading neurologist who makes 500k+ a year. And yeah, she has that mentality like the typical asian parent.</p>
<p>Oh my god prabz thats so true especially that last part about walking 10 miles to school i so agree. LOL</p>
<p>Whenever a parent says they want you in an Ivy League school, just reply by asking what sport they want you to play…</p>
<p>harvard is a good place to go if you can get in by all means</p>
<p>nevertheless, it is not a gurantee of anything, but its still a very prestigious brand name that many people in this materialistic world recognize so it is something</p>
<p>nevertheless, dont completely live your life just to go to harvard…</p>
<p>Sometimes I do feel that parents can go overboard, but sometimes they DO make really good decisions that we, as teenagers, may not even think about.
As much as I like to think I’m all that, I learned in psychology that it’s just through biology that we, as teenagers, tend to interpret things wrong, especially what adults do and their expressions. A part of our brain hasn’t fully developed yet, so it’s hard for us to make right choices.
That’s not to say that we’re not capable of it though.</p>
<p>When I was in 8th grade, I absolutely did NOT want to go to this “prestigious” high school that my parents wanted me to go to, but now I’m glad I listened to them because I love it there and the status of the school (along with my own grades and involvement, like EC) is helping to give me an edge into the colleges of my choice.</p>
<p>That’s my experience.</p>
<p>Wow that sucks. my parents didn’t push me toward an ivy at all. they wanted me to go in state.</p>
<p>actually my rents leave it up to me to do whatever i want and they usually just support me.</p>
<p>My parents specifically discouraged from me going to the Ivies, Stanford, and even some of the local state schools because they thought they’d be “too academically intense for me”.</p>
<p>Suits me fine though. Better than my friends who get shackled with Asian parents. :p</p>
<p>I used to have strict Asian parents, and then I beat the “strict” right out of them.</p>
<p>Not literally. But having a crazy kid definitely wore them down. Nowadays I threaten to drop out of school and all they can say is “we love you and hope you’re okay.” </p>
<p>(These are the same parents who put me in the eighth grade when I was eight, made me study for IQ tests, and wouldn’t let us have real literature in the house because they only wanted us to read science books.)</p>
<p>wow…know how you feel, just not harvard or ivy league schools… my parents are seriously gonna disown me (acutally, they threaten to) if i don’t go to a top caliber school, <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Mom got mad at me when I explained why i refuse to go to UCB (yay for hobos on campus) and i’d rather go to community college …
But, they’ve planned which colleges I should go to …of which UCSB consists as my “safety school”…and now they’re thinking of everything up to grad school…to them, it’s seriously med school or homelessness >.><br>
<em>end rant</em></p>