<p>when my mom tells me what to do in school i tell her to shut up because im smarter than her (well not exactly). But yeah, she went to a crappy private school (very crappy), was a B student, and went to one year of junior college and dropped out. </p>
<p>I go to a tough public (very tough) and im about ten times smarter than my mom (no joke), so whatever she says is discredited. </p>
<p>My dad never pushed me until i started pushing myself this year. Before, i got a 3.2 freshman and sophomore years. Now i got a 4.3 this year because i decided to try much harder. He doesnt exactly push me now, but he encourages me a ton, and also tries to tell me to get my priorities straight and have fun (because whenever i get home i do my homework and he thinks i should give it a break and hang out with people once in a while) only i feel i need to continue the way i am because i am trying to get into McGill, and i have to keep my grades up to make up for bad sophomore grades.</p>
<p>My parents are extremely pushy about what school to go to. And I think it's backfired on them because after 15 years of "go to Harvard," "get straight A's," I finally got fed up with it and I just stopped caring.</p>
<p>My parents are as yours. They don't push me at all; they follow a hands-off approach. Sometimes, they only give me some advice. I like their sttyle which benifit me a lot. I am responsible to myself.</p>
<p>my parents like to think that they have the hands off approach just because i have proven to be responsible at boarding school. they know that i work really really hard and they totally support me in everything i do</p>
<p>except i was really freaked out when i got my SAT scores which were much lower than i was expecting and my mom FREAKED on me....i tried to explain that my ACTs were a lot a lot better and they were accepted everywhere i was applying but she still freaked.</p>
<p>that kind of freaked me out. but in terms of schools they are totally understanding of where and what i want.</p>
<p>My parents have a mostly hands-off approach but only because I push myself really hard without them.
My mom is the sort of person who says "Do your best and I'll be happy" and actually means it. My dad says "Whatever. I know you'll do well." And if I don't do as well as I want on something (something big, not a test or quiz but semester grade for example), I'm really upset and beating myself up so they're basically there to tell me to chill out.
Yeah, pretty good system.</p>
<p>My parents are very critical of me, academically (although they like to pretend that they don't really care.) My dad is extremely competitive with his work partner, and their main battle is over whose child will get in to a better school. They trade passive-aggressive comments...
[My name] won the grand prize at the science fair.
Oh, that's great. [Other daughter] was elected captain of the swim team.
Speaking of elections, [My name] was elected vice president of the National Honor Society!
...Ugh.</p>
<p>Anyway, while they have very high academic standards for me, they are soooo unaware of how involved the college application process is. I wanted to apply to a summer program. My parents' response: No, we want you to be here this summer. Don't be selfish and ruin everyone else's summer.</p>
<p>They also think that all A's is enough to get me into Harvard. I'm sick of them being so unrealistic.</p>
<p>My parents are pretty hands-off, but I think it's partially because they see I already have everything taken care of. As long as I bring home good grades, they're pretty unaware of what I do. Most people on CC should be pretty self-sufficient. My dad in particular is pretty laid back; when I told him I wanted to take AP English he told me that "Maybe you should take it easy." I have weird Asian parents...</p>
<p>My parents are somewhere in the middle. They get on my ass occasionally because I never appear to work as much as they think I should, but I generally ignore them. When they get irritating I tell them that I'll just go drop out and start shooting coke. :D</p>
<p>As for college, I did almost everything - my stepfather, who is a professor with tons of publications helped me edit my essays, but otherwise I did everything on my own.</p>
<p>my parents r the typical asian parents. altho they'r not the unreasonable type ("why did you get a 95? where did the other five points go?").</p>
<p>you used to be on my back a LOT, but ever since i started high school, they've noticed that i CARE, so now they let me do my thing. still, sometimes they do get on my nerves, my mom isn't really that familiar w/the whole SAT and SATII and college stuff and she tries to feed me her opinions which are def not gonna work. </p>
<p>ps. i like how my parents r like, "get that A! sleep at 10!" kinda impossible w/me don't know about other students</p>
<p>My mom has reasonably high standards, but she lets me make my own decisions. If she feels that I'm making the wrong decision, we fight, but she's generally hands off. However, she's always there at my awards ceremonies and stuff. I complain about her nagging sometimes, but I really wouldn't change it if I could.</p>
<p>My parents are Asians, but it would make my day if they know what classes I am taking at school (I know. Hard to believe eh?) They are quite liberal when it comes to school because they know I will take care of it.</p>
<p>My parents have never been involved in my schooling. They even stopped going to the parent teacher conferences in something like 3rd grade. They have no idea whats going on at school in any way, shape, or form. I couldn't really care less... but sometimes it would be nice if they showed the even slightest bit of interest. They still don't know the name of the college I'm attending or what I'm majoring in there, even though I've told them a million times.</p>
<p>My parents are...interesting when it comes to my college searching. In the past, my mom has had the philosophy that, "If you are putting forth effort and working hard, I don't care what grades you get." My friends and I have discussed the different levels of parental involvement/concern as far as GPAs and college admissions go, and many of them are envious of my parents' stance (My dad: "Just do your best; that's all that we can ask.") This year, as I have agonized over next year's schedule, college applications, the possibilty of being admitted to elite schools, letters of rec, etc., my parents have seemed even more relaxed than before; they honestly don't seem to care whether I go to Harvard or my state's HUGE state university. </p>
<p>Personally, it frustrates me that my parents don't force me to achieve and never made me sign up for the MOST difficult schedule, work on an Intel entry, or push myself to the very edges of my limits and abilities. I wish they had. Sometimes, in fact, I think that I must be at an enormous disadvantage because my parents are so uninvolved. I want them to care and to be more "picky" about just how well I do, I suppose. If I get into an Ivy or an elite university, I want that acceptance to mean more to them, to make them more proud, than admittance to our run-of-the-mill state school.</p>
<p>My parents are somewhere in the middle. They don't push me do anything, but if I do get involved in a course or EC they sort of encourage me do give it my best. They're both great professionals so there's always some pressure for me and my brothers to be equally successfull. They helped out with the whole college process whenever I asked them, but they respected any decision I made.</p>
<p>My parents are hands-off, and I think it's great. That's cause my parents trust my sister and I, and know we'll do the best we can do for everything. My parents are almost even not worried at all about our educational pursuits because they know we'll make the best choice. I'm glad of this, because just the pressure I put on myself is really a killer. If I had to deal with the pushing of my parents, I think i'd collapse. My own expectations are high enough.</p>
<p>My parents used to freak out but now they've laid off quite a bit this year....my mom actually WANTS me to drop out to get a job (hahaha...good one...no.) They used to flip out whenever I got a B on anything even though I'm in all honors/AP classes, and I used to not care a whole lot about school (even though I made/make almost all A's, with a few B's mixed in). Now...it's strange....they don't care anymore....but i'm still making mostly A's because all of a sudden....I actually care about school for some reason. Probably has to do with the fact that I realize that I need top notch grades to get into med school and I need to develop those habits for getting top notch grades before I go to college.</p>
<p>My parents opted for the confused, make-their-son-paranoid style by telling me one day that I could apply anywhere I wanted and they would worry about the money later, then telling me that I should only seriously consider two or three schools they liked and thought I should like, too. If I tried to dispute them, they just called me an 'elitist' and basically made me feel like a terrible person for even thinking differently then they did. I almost ended up going to an expensive school I didn't really like just to shut them up. They were paying for it, after all....</p>
<p>So now I'm going to a public university in a neighboring state where the head football coach makes over a million dollars a year and the building that houses the departments of English, Theater, and Foreign Languages is literally falling apart. Yeah, I think we're all happy with the the way things turned out.</p>