<p>I'm like 1-2 in my class of like 250 and I have relatively strong tests and all that good stuff. My parents are so stupid. They keep showing me this crap about NJ Stars for free community college. I wanna hit em. They don't understand that just because that's all they could get into, I don't want to go to community college. It's not like we don't have the money either. Those of you with asian parents who push for ivies should be happy. I have moronic parents pushing me towards community college even though they know I want pre-med (obviously c. col. isn't a place for pre-med) Grr..</p>
<p>My parents are like that too... Always telling me to get great grades, etc. but then they are like, "well you could just go to a fourth-tier school because it's cheaper." it's not even like we are poor.</p>
<p>Only top Ivies seem to be good enough for my parents, no matter the cost. Even if a slightly lesser, but still highly respected school, is giving me a full ride.</p>
<p>Parents really need to find a balance. :</p>
<p>I think I'm gonna have to be visitng some of the better colleges on my own and going through all that college crap by myself because they will simply defer my efforts to something pointless. They all want me to be a cop because we have three generations of cops in my family. I broke it to my dad that there's a fat chance of me becoming a cop.</p>
<p>not step parents. my dad didn't really say all that much about but i think he may have been a little disappointed. we have plenty of money to spare and i think i could get some scholarship money, but they seem to think that no matter, college isn't that critical because i should be able to get a job after college no matter where i graduate from. i don't know, they're weird and im gonna fight it through with them.</p>
<p>Are your parents perhaps embarrassed that you may have greater success then they had? If so, they may be trying to drag you into the tradition so they have no feelings of inferiority.</p>
<p>The more I read about all these weird parents, the more I'm so glad I have parents who treat me like an adult -- they set their expectations high, but allowed me to find my own course through high school (didn't really check out my grade cards...) and apply to my own universities! They didn't even know when I had sent my apps in, lol.</p>
<p>Someone in another parent thread said parents behave the way they do because they love their children. I have no doubt about that, but really, if your kid can't tough it out at 16, 17, 18, they're not going to do all that great in the real world when mommy isn't there to help you bring your grade up.</p>
<p>I am right there with you. My parents are all like "go where? there a bunch of colleges here. St. John's university for example..." UGH UH! I'm like Dad - I am not busting my @$$ to go to college with kids who would really rather not...</p>
<p>Yeah, same problem, kind of. My parents want me to go to the local state university, and possibly transfer after 2 years, but basically just go there for at least the first 2 to save money, even though there's a 90% chance we'll be able to pay for the more prestigious schools I get accepted to. Also, I want to major in theatre, and in some cases the school you go to can help you get a job after because of connections, but they think of it as a useless degree and therefore want to spend the least amount of money possbile on it.
I wish I was interested in pre-med or osmehthing, because then they'd pay for wherever i wanted to go and got in because at least I'd have a good chance of earning the money back later in life:)</p>
<p>Say that all you want, but so far I've gotten a UCLA degree and acceptance to two top grad programs in my field after a year at a CC. :-P to you.</p>
<p>Aaack. Parents.
Mine are okay on the university front, they just want me to go where I'm happy (yay). </p>
<p>The big problem is with my mom and my music lessons. I love playing music and doing my own thing with it, but I hate the virtuostic-competitiveness aspect of it. I don't want to go in huge competitions and do exams, I just want to love it. Lately I've been really busy at school and haven't had time to memorize my concerto and festival is coming up. I want to pull out but my mom can't stop calling me a quitter and telling me I have to do it. I can't do my best, so I don't want to humiliate myself in a competitive class full of people who are actually going to be studying music in university (I'm not). I don't really see what is so wrong with that. Plus, being one of eight full french-immersion IB diploma students in my grade of 650+ students, I am anything but a quitter!!! </p>
<p>my parents say i can go to college wherever i want</p>
<p>but they will only pay for 4 years of a UC education, even though it took my dad 5 years to graduate from cal poly on his parents' dime. </p>
<p>and our EFC is like 55 grand so i'll get screwed over and have to graduate in debt to pay the difference between the 6 grand UC tuition and 24 grand UIUC tuition.</p>