It depends on where you want to go vs where they’re pushing you to go. If you want to go out of state and your parents are saying that they can only afford to send you in-state, then parents are being practical. If you live in Texas and everyone is pushing you to go to UT-Austin but you really want to go to Texas A&M, then that’s an unreasonable amount of pressure. Parents, on the other hand, get the final say where you go to college. If they say that you go to UT-Austin, that’s where you go unless you decide to enlist in the Army.