<p>seriously i cant believe parents the parents here...</p>
<p>"My D wants to go to HYP and is continually getting above 2300 but she needs 2400. can anyone help? thanks!"</p>
<p>i dont get it. its like the parents, not the students themselves, are wanting to get into college. anyone else agree?</p>
<p>some of those parents are causing serious damage to their kids</p>
<p>Every parent wants the best for their child. Some parents just go too far. </p>
<p>Really, I wish my mom had knowledge about college. It's so hard being the first one in my family to go and not having someone that understands what you're talking about.</p>
<p>^^^Or your dad just assuming you can get into schools like Georgetown...</p>
<p>I wish my parents knew about all the colleges and went all crazy.....</p>
<p>yeah i am first generation too and my parents arent helping me out also. i mean it would be nice to have parents help you to get into college but i think cc parents just go too far.</p>
<p>CC parents are the best of the worst. Sorry, truth. I think there is a line between helping, and they all seem to cross it. Like, let your kid do what they want, like if they want to enroll in the service, or they want to go to a small college.</p>
<p>I don't think I've ever seen anything close to that from most parents. And the few that are usually realize what they did wrong later. They're also probably one of the best sources for advise. I think like, half the posts in the Parent's Forum are actually just high schoolers / college students looking for advice.</p>
<p>I go to a high school where almost all the parents are like CC
parents hahaha. It's kinda sad, but I'm just blessed my parents
support my choices and try to help me with them.</p>
<p>What's that parents name who's really infamous on this site.
ParentofIvyHopeful or something like that hahaha.</p>
<p>I'm so glad I'm not the only person who thinks this.</p>
<p>There is no way my mother would ever come on this site and ask about something I want. If I want it, she'd make my butt do the research myself. </p>
<p>And then the paranoid posts they make are truly entertaining.
"My D is going to be residing on a co-ed floor, does this mean she's going to participate in countless orgies?"</p>
<p>Most of us are here to educate ourselves or pass on advice we have gained. Yes, there are some that are a little out there, as are some of the students who post perfect scores in their chance threads just to show off how great they are. No one is so ignorant that, when you have a 2380 on the SAT, a 35 on the ACT, great EC's and no. 1 in your class, they can't figure out they can apply anywhere they please. It's showboating (i'll admit parents do that as well at times). Have to be proud of our kids...but there are some good ways to do it and then some not so good ways...lol</p>
<p>Yeah ParentOfIvyHope is an antithesis of most CC parents actually...</p>
<p>I wrote something about this like a week ago in the parents forum and they all crucified me. said i was mentally ill and bad relationship etc..</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>I'd like to read that thread, where is it?</p>
<p>Edit: Nevermind, I found it.
I need a good laugh today.</p>
<p>Tell me what you think. Was I too critical? Did I not make any sense. Idk</p>
<p>You made a lot of sense to me.
I honestly don't understand why a parent would spend hours doing something their child wants.
As I said before, there's no way my mother would post my stats, spend hours talking to other parents, comparing colleges and so fourth, for something I could easily do myself. </p>
<p>Their children are (likely) adults. It's time to cut the umbilical cord.</p>
<p>I went over there again, and somebody made a similar thread to yours and they're jumping all over that person too.</p>
<p>God forbid anybody disagrees with those people.</p>
<p>I agree with the OP. Some parents are way too overwhelming.</p>
<p>my mom is the opposite. she wants me to go to the state university rather than an ivy or high ranked school which i am very capable of getting into.</p>
<p>as a first generation student, sometimes i wish my parents could help me out a little with college stuff. some parents here are very helpful (northstarmom, etc.), but a lot of them do take it too far and i can see why so many kids are stressed out all the time.</p>