<p>My parents are horrified that I am going to study abroad for soo long!
What did your parents think when you decided to study in the USA?</p>
<p>When I first told them that I want to apply to the States, they were so against, mainly due to the high cost of Private LACs.</p>
<p>But now that I've gotten a nice financial aid package, they are definitely happy for me. :p</p>
<p>My prophet of doom of a mother warned me about terrorism and all the evils of studying abroad :p</p>
<p>o kjoodles, that is same as what my father did!
and he always "jokes" around saying, "u wont see us when u're back! we'll all be moved out!"</p>
<p>My parents said as long as it was Harvard, MIT, Princeton, or UPenn Wharton, it was fine.</p>
<p>Oh well, my mum has been pestering me to get a girlfriend asap... as she's afraid that i might get a foreign girlfriend... :p </p>
<p>my dad wanted me to make a trip back to china to reconnect with my grandpa's hometown, not that i mind, but seriously i dont think we know each other that well, even though we are sort of related.</p>
<p>well my parents were sort of cool with it...although still they want me to attend Indian Institute of Technology...which i personally would not like to go to.</p>
<p>Institute of Technology indeed has tough competition but of course, it's a personal choice.</p>
<p>kenyon, i feel your pain</p>
<p>yeah the competition is like really really tough. I mean the intake % is 2.2 so thats like tougher than any ivy or anything and its even tougher for getting computer engineering course. (about 0.9%) so its really for the people who are totally into it and like want to attend.</p>
<p>I didn't ask my parents.. they asked me. They talked about how I don't study and not trying hard in school.. and that they decided to give me a chance in 'applying' myself to overseas universities. And they suggested a couple - u penn, stanford, harvard, johns hopkins, etc..</p>
<p>My initial reaction was: "omg there's a university in the vampire town pennsylvania?!" (i got it confused with transylvania)
My second reaction was: "omg I have to study?!"</p>
<p>hahaa thats funny.. though now u have completey got urself tuned to the admission process..</p>
<p>SM</p>
<p>My parents have known that I'll be studying in the US for like the past 5-7 years. So no surprises there.</p>
<p>5-7 yrs thats more like a veryyy long time</p>
<p>SM</p>
<p>I live in a place which doesn't have decent institutions for higher education, so my parents sort of already new I'd be going abroad.</p>
<p>Lakshya M, same story for me. The only question was "US or Europe?". They're still not quite convinced that US is the best option.</p>
<p>"5-7 yrs thats more like a veryyy long time" It sure is.</p>
<p>My dad bragged all over the place about me going to study in the US. He obviously doesn't know what this school called "harvard" really is. I'd really hate to tell him I dumped his $300 down the drain>_<</p>