<p>Well, don’t bother with explaining IB or any of that. Just worry about convincing them to let you go out of state early on because it will create hell if you both ignore that issue till senior spring. My mom had no clue what my SAT meant, to be fair neither did I until my counselor told me and I was already finishing up applying to colleges. I took subjects, but it was also whatever and I can’t remember my scores but they were enough to get credit at some schools and that’s all I knew. Get one of those project helpers for financial aid, it helped me out so much, I don’t know if they have a Project Stay but it’s just a free financial aid helper organization.</p>
<p>@lucky
i can SO relate to everything you said up there ^ about your parents not knowing anything at all about college and ap classes, and i actually laughed because sounded so familiar. my parents insist that i take easy classes because i can get an easy A. and when i took the psat last year, my mom was like “it’s so early, and it’s raining…why don’t you just take it later.” and when i got home later “dang, that took you forever. why are you so slow?” and when i took the act a couple of months ago in with all the other juniors, “wow, they sure got you all testin alot now lately don’t they? we never tested that much in high school”</p>
<p>dude do you go to my school?? my counselor is a b.itch. both of them. you walk into their office and they look at you like you just walked into their house.</p>
<p>if i walk into one of the counselor’s office and ask something they’ll be like uhhh ask _____ (other counselor) and she’ll tell me to go to the other. hahha its so pathetic, and if you can get anything out of them it’s not even right.</p>
<p>haha, awe, at least I had an awesome IB coordinator and while she’d call my mom when I read a book in class (not allowed during study time, even when I’m done with my work) she at least talked to my mom about “this is a good thing, this is a good college, your daughter is doing good” so my parents kinda knew when things were all right. Still they never understood me doing homework, maybe it was my fault for hardly doing it at home but when I had my math IA to type they didn’t understand why I was just forcing my nephew to stop playing games on the computer. But then my parents didn’t even graduate, and really to graduate all they had to do was show up to school (that’s what they told me) but they just much rather not be in school at the time.</p>
<p>I just hate like, now when I want to take my placement exam online today and they told me I had to babysit today and clean the house. Cleaning >>>> school.</p>
<p>^ That’s unfortunate. Really unfortunate. I feel you there. My parents will never get IAs and such. My IB Coordinator is awesome. He is a cool dude. My parents already think IB will not be work at all. I try to convince them no.</p>
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<li>Montessori pre-school/kindergarten </li>
<li>Horace Mann school until 8th grade</li>
<li>Philips Exeter for 9th - 12th</li>
<li>HYP for University</li>
</ol>
<p>@mdhash, same with the montessori pre-school. I went for two years when I was four and five and I came into school so far ahead of everyone else.</p>
<p>Hmm, I never thought about the future for my kid(s). I guess I’ll take them to the library for reading, introduce them to soccer :D, let them choose an instrument.</p>
<p>And keep it public school. If you live in a good area, it’ll be alright.</p>
<p>No pressure, only pursue interests as he/she wishes. If I saw a talent I’d be sure to foster it and help out * as much as possible <a href=“something%20my%20parents%20did%20not%20do%20due%20to%20their%20own%20emotional%20constraints%20in%20the%20later%20part%20of%20my%20life%20with%20them”>/i</a>.
In terms of work ethic and GPA I’d expect at least top 10% and an ACT/SAT percentile matching their GPA.</p>
<p>oh same, whenever I imagine my children I always imagine them smiling, like big smiles as they just walk into the house and watch TV (I figure this is unrealistic in teen years but I still imagine them as happy teens). But I think the thing I like about our generation is how more accepting we are? Like I feel like the future parents will be more okay with gay kids or their children dating a different race.</p>
<p>I guess I just want my kids happy and all that. I sort of do like how my mom and dad raised me overall, I mean they weren’t prepared for me going to college or even wanting it so I understand, but I generally like how they joke around and what they taught me about life and work ethic and I plan to just raise my kids the same way.</p>
<p>I’ll let him/her do what they want to do, but I’ll make sure that he/she doesn’t do anything stupid. My parents have done that to me and it’s worked really well so far. I might try teaching him/her advanced math/science earlier on, but only if he/she will oblige… otherwise there’s really no point to it. One thing I would like to push for my kid would be the development of a (or multiple) passion or strong hobby early on. I didn’t develop many good hobbies as a kid I want my kid(s) to. I wouldn’t force anything on him/her, though; I would let him/her live his/her own life (although I would encourage him/her to make the best choices).</p>
<p>I’ll expect him/her to perform as well as I am doing in school, if not better.</p>