@IsaacTheFuture I can relate to that so, so much. I tell them that there are many schools they haven’t heard of and just because a school isn’t known by the people in our (low-income) community (who are just as, if not more, ignorant), does not mean that it is of lower level. When I tell them that employers in that area / other people of academia will definitely know those schools, they just shake their heads and say I’m disrespecting them.
Sometimes I think they want me to apply just so they can brag to their friends, because I can’t logically decipher why else they wouldn’t want me to go to a prestigious school that offers similar opportunities in addition to a much better fit.
I browsed through your threads and am pretty sure you got into Northwestern through Questbridge. Did that end up working out for you? How is your relationship with your parents now?