why i never liked being asian

<p>so anyway mom wants the RANKING for top 25 or so econs department in the nation (presumably to 'aid' my decision). anyone knows where to get?</p>

<p><a href="http://www.hss.caltech.edu/ss/phd/rankings%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.hss.caltech.edu/ss/phd/rankings&lt;/a> :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Dude.........</p>

<p>keep in mind those are the grad school majors.....not undergrad.</p>

<p>"Ph.D. Program Rankings"</p>

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AHMEN
Asians aren't suppose to sat that I think....
Oh well....
ABCD</p>

<p>When it comes to college decisions, Asians will always get the shaft.</p>

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<p>You guys won't believe this....
I'm in 9th and my dad has been on my back for weeks now to start looking for a college and he says I better goto IIM or IIT (Indian Institute of [Management or Technology]) He thinks that I have to decide what I want to become RIGHT NOW. Plus we can't afford like NYU and stuff for around 50k so IIM is about 14k in U.S dollars (700,000 Rupees/Yr). He got upset because my Gpa went down .07?!?!?!</p>

<p>Oh for goodness gracious, I've never been one to mumble about what race i'm born into, but that changed after the tiem for decision for colleges came...mom says it's either prestige or it's nothing...so now i can't go to the LAC that i love...argh</p>

<p>not to take anything away from the struggles that asians go through to get into ivies etc...but there are a lot of great LAC's where asians are actually an UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY.........</p>

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mom says it's either prestige or it's nothing

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damn right it is.</p>

<p>we empathize. what else can we do?</p>

<p>oh my god. asians got it tough? are you serious. asians are flooding a lot of colleges. well, at least in california. dont get me wrong, i have a lot of asian friends and they tell me all of the time about the pressures that their parents set on them and that seems common among asian families, so i bet that can get frustrating. but imagine having parents who could careless, never inquired about college, or even discouraged you from college because their knowledge and resources is limited? how about that... stop complaining!</p>

<p>ur a minority bayarea88</p>

<p>All asian parents are obsessed in a way. And Scar, I pity you, IIT is good place but its another place hwere jobless people spend 4 years just to get in</p>

<p>antarius, im a minority? im confused.. i didnt mean that I personally am in that situation, but i do know of A Hell of a lot of people that are.. and people who are so obssesed on complaining about how "hard" it is to have parents push them don't see how the other half lives. thats what i meant.</p>

<p>thats valid... point conceeded.</p>

<p>Actually, ur right as obsessed parents are annoying, but not-caring parents are worse. </p>

<p>To rephrase what I said, amongst asians, that is a minority situation that you ARe in</p>

<p>This is my mom's perception of colleges:</p>

<p>Tier 1: Ivies, Stanford, MIT, JHU.
Tier 2: NYU, UCs, Georgetown, UChicago, Williams, Amherst, Carleton.
Tier 3: UMich, Syracuse, Tulane, USC, Swarthmore, Claremont McKenna, etc.
Tier 4: All others.</p>

<p>What the hell is she thinking? I thought tier one was the top 100 colleges. Whatever.
Med school? Screw that.
Engineering? ***** that.
I'm going to business school. Wharton here I come. :) (UMich for undergrad-because I know UMich is a tier one school.)</p>

<p>In the case of my dad, it's not just that all he cares about is SAT scores and my GPA, but that he doesn't care about me as a person.</p>

<p>He also defines my friends by their SAT scores. If I refer to one later on he says "the one who got <insert sat="" score="">?" and I'm like "yeah" and he's like "oh, ok that one."</insert></p>

<p>Carleton in Tier 2? That is certainly interesting, especially from a kyoiku mama's prestige-whore-back-home-in-my-Asian-community perspective.</p>

<p>"In the case of my dad, it's not just that all he cares about is SAT scores and my GPA, but that he doesn't care about me as a person.</p>

<p>He also defines my friends by their SAT scores. If I refer to one later on he says "the one who got <insert sat="" score="">?" and I'm like "yeah" and he's like "oh, ok that one.""</insert></p>

<p>amen to that. my rents are exactly the same way.</p>

<p>Claremont McKenna t3? Claremont McKenna is better than most of the UCs</p>