<p>My immediate family, well I'm the first to even graduate high school so they're pretty happy, though my mom says she won't brag till I graduate from college. These are my older brothers and parents (I'm youngest of 4, btw).</p>
<p>My not so immediate is more odd. Early on, freshman year, they would ask about college and try to give advice which turned to them bragging about their kids or kinda insulting me (my aunt once laughed at the idea of me going to A&M Corpus? ***? "Like you could get in" were her words, what is this bs?). Now that I'm into CMU and a gates finalist no one congratulates me or even brings it up or really says much to me. I don't care, never liked talking to them anyway. </p>
<p>My dads' side of the family are a bunch of cool drunks and usually like to brag (about me, hah) and say "Have fun~~~but not too much~~". </p>
<p>So yeah, just wondering how ya'lls family reacts, it's usually kinda odd from what I can tell at school.</p>
<p>My family isn’t putting any pressure on me to get into the Ivies (even though they’re Asian). They’d be happy for me to attend UC Berkeley, UCLA (since I’m moving to California next year), or even my safety school, U of Toronto. In fact, they probably don’t expect me to get into the Ivies at all lol. Not a problem, since I’m not expecting to get in either.</p>
<p>CMU = Carnegie Mellon?? After all this is CC… My brother wasn’t all that great in school, but got into Indiana University, my parents know I’m smarter than him and know I can do better, but they don’t wanna spend endless money on college, so I’m either going to UNC or getting a scholarship from a really good school. I don’t want to go to UNC, it would be just like coming home from high school. Ew.</p>
<p>My dad was accepted to Georgetown and my mom was accepted to several Ivies, so they just kinda expect me to get into a good school. I believe I would be a decent candidate for an Ivy, but I’m simply not interested.</p>
<p>My parents don’t care (about Ivies), plus they wouldn’t be able to afford it. Haha… TCNJ all the way! :P</p>
<p>Ah, I didn’t care at all for ivies, I’m an engineering major and Cornell is ranked just a bit lower than my state school (UT). And yeah, CMU=Carnegie Mellon, love the place.</p>
<p>Luckily my parents couldn’t pressure at all! In fact, in the beginning they’d throw away a lot of my college mail (my mom thought they were junk), including one from Cornell. They’re a bit mad at how far I’m going though, but I’ve talked a lot and convinced them to let me go. :P</p>
<p>Really? she laughed? My brother was in the corps… he liked it a lot (well, he quit, but joined again 2nd semester of freshman year and continued to graduation). but it was a lot of fitness stuff and yelling in your face…</p>
<p>I’m not sure yet, I haven’t talked to them about it much… I still have a good 2 years until I “officially” start looking at college according to my school :P</p>
<p>My parents expect me to get in somewhere good, but for the most part, they just want me to be happy wherever I go. And like OP, both sides like to brag about me and are proud of me wherever I go. First-gen college student too.</p>
<p>rayne, yeah, she’s kind of a real b****, I mean, I tried explaining stats w/ automatic admissions and top 10% but for some reason she didn’t believe me</p>
<p>My parents are willing to let me go to NYU Abu Dhabi! Which has been my dream school for … well … at least the past few months, haha. </p>
<p>But my entire family back in China is FLIPPING OUT 'cos I got into an Ivy. Don’t get me wrong, I’m ecstatic about it too! But it’s gotten to the point where they are actually berating my mom for not forcing me to go there. It’s been an exhausting week of decision-making already, and I really do not want their pressure on top of it all. :(</p>
<p>My parents have no idea how competitive the admissions process is in here especially for the Ivies. I think they’re expecting me to go to Harvard (yeah like I’m gonna get in). They were like “if you’re not going to Harvard, then just go to MIT or Puriinsuton” as if getting in is as easy as 1-2-3.</p>
<p>And they want me to be a doctor. Typical Asian household.</p>
<p>My parents and family are proud of the fact I got into college. Luckily, they’re not those super-knowledgeable kinds of people who fervidly research college selectivity and acceptance rates. So just me getting into college alone (although not Ivy status) made them proud.</p>
<p>^Seems like the same with me, they used to think I’d be like an ivy league scholar like snip-snap, but then things changed because of the surprising competition here. I slid down the ladder a couple of rungs. I still want to go to a good college, and my plan is to make up for my mistakes my last two years of high school, and to prove to everyone that I can do well and be successful.</p>
<p>My parents refuse to let me attend UNC or Duke. Because they’re close to home.
And I have controlling parents. Oh well, my dream school is Chicago, and my parents have harsh words for that idea, lol.</p>
<p>My parents want me to stay close so they won’t have to pay a large sum of money, they haven’t heard of scholarships or financial aid obviously. I don’t want to stay within 200 miles of our house…lol.</p>
