<p>menloparkmom,</p>
<p>It’s not just laziness. Often these kids have parents who just immigrated, and all they’ve heard of over in their original country was HYP. people assume that those kids whose parents are immigrants have an entirely american outlook, and eschew the immigrant mentality. Not true. the kids will think like their parents, when it comes to colleges. If kids have non english native speakers as parents, who have no time or motivation to study the ways of american society, then these kids will turn out , at least, partially , like their parents.The parents are often too busy trying to put food on the table, and are often still living their former country’s lifestyle, meeting people of the same ethnicity since their communities may be socially isolated, to make sure their kids fully assimilate. Hence the poor college selection.</p>