<p>My parents told me to register for the Jan SAT today.</p>
<p>After I finished registration, they were like, okay, if you get a 2350+, you don't have to pay for it. If you get 2350-2300, you have to pay for half. If you get lower than 2300 you have to pay for everything. And I was like, ):</p>
<p>Anyone have similar situations?</p>
<p>For me it was more like, 2350+ you get a PS3. 2300+ you’re okay, and lower than 2300 you’re out in the streets. T___T’'</p>
<p>Half of what? Your college costs? Or just the SAT fees? Either way, that’s a whole lot of pressure. Good luck.</p>
<p>Haha just SAT fees, thankfully.</p>
<p>oh no! you’d have to pay a whopping fortttttty dollars!!!</p>
<p>you are going to college for yourself- not your parents</p>
<p>I told my mother I wanted to take the December SAT (like two hours after the Nov SAt lol) and she was like ***? Why are you taking it again? Just go to -insert state school-</p>
<p>Yes and we’re asian. FOB asians. Chinese people.</p>
<p>It is my life long dream for her to try and bribe me for good grades/scores.</p>
<p>My mom has always just told me to do my best. Never bribes me or threatens me for high scores.</p>
<p>Batllo: Hahaha…maybe thats why she is so unsupportive. I told her in middle school that I probably wouldnt be having kids.</p>
<p>Couldnt she give anything more supportive? Just imagine how much you could do with 40 bucks!!! (8 five dollar subways i suppose?) lol</p>
<p>extrinsic motivations are for people w/o disciplines. you won’t get far (after college, like grad school, work etc) if you dont have your own, intrinsic motivations.</p>
<p>Brooke, what do you think your parents would do if you decided that you don’t want to take the SAT in December after all? And maybe this whole college thing… maybe that needs to be rethought, too. You might want to be free from the grind of academic work after high school, after all, and travel around and pick up odd jobs when you need money, or learn pole dancing, or just, you know, sit in the library and draw cartoons or some such. I wonder how your parents would react? :D</p>
<p>Oh, please, cut the B.S. about only intrinsic learners succeeding. My sister is at Harvard right now and she dreaded taking the SAT.</p>
<p>Just because someone doesn’t enjoy studying for the SAT doesn’t mean that she would fail in life and work in McDonald’s; it simply means that her intrinsic motivations lie in another decidedly more productive subject.</p>
<p>or is it that you don’t have your own discipline but need your parents push like a fourth grader?</p>
<p>College-goer, I have a job for you; it’ll be a great experience and you’ll learn a lot. No pay, however, because what you’ll be learning should be enough of an intrinsic motivation for you to devote yourself to the work!</p>
<p>In other words, there is nothing wrong with external motivations, and without them, most people would be doing something other than what they do for money.</p>
<p>Why are all these people preaching you? Seriously, if Brooke’s parents expect a 2350+ of her, then she is obviously extremely intelligent and has shown she can adapt to the task. To get such a high score, some intrinsic motivation is mandatory, I would think, the extrinsic positive reinforcement is merely an added bonus. I never quite understood why people go on the internet just to yell at other people.</p>
<p>what the fudge does intrinsic mean? Damn, this intelligent conversation is gonna give me a heart attack.</p>
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<p>And yet, you still did so!</p>
<p>The extrinsic “motivation” does not seem to have particularly motivated this student; this type of “motivation” strikes me as stick, not carrot, and carrots generally work far better for motivation and are less likely to create resentment.</p>