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<p>Yes, and this is frustrating and perplexing to my (variegated) Asian families, who understandably expect and want more. What they invariably do, often, is seek outside enrichment for that during K-12, since often they do not find it in the classroom.</p>
<p>PCP, you’re correct about often “acing” the SAT/ACT, as many of the others here are also aware. However, it is becoming less universally so, particularly if they come here considerably younger than h.s.: part of that is the education they are presented with in the classroom; part, as I mentioned, is attitudes/study habits of peers, which is difficult to resist as a teen.</p>