For Fellow Asians: What are the Popular Schools You've Seen Kids Looking at?

[Anonymous]

East Asian parents here.

Yes there is a list of top schools that many Asian parents want to send their kids to.

But not all Asian kids are super smart. For those kids, I noticed that Asian parents prefer big in-state public schools (for Virginia, UVa, VT, GMU, VCU, etc) over smaller public schools (such as MWC and CNU).

You will have a hard time finding Asian kids at less known private schools like Roanoke college or Randolph Macon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious what you have seen with your children and their other Asian friends. And I'm not talking about the consistent Asian dream schools (Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Caltech, Penn, Yale), but schools that are perhaps less obvious. In my daughter's friend group I've been seeing a surprising level of interest in Georgia Tech for example.[/quote]


Why is Ga Tech surprising? It is huge for engineering. No 1 in the US. for aerospace engineering. Major draw for stem kids from overseas. Also OOS tuition from this area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find your post extremely reductive, OP.

Why assume that Asians are looking differently at colleges? Asian cultures are many and varied. Some hail directly from their native land, others have been here, or elsewhere in the western world, for years, or generations. Some families are poor or uneducated. Some have kids that aren't high-performing. This thread strengthens stereotypes, and that's never good.

My Euro-Asian kids and their friends, Asian or not, are mostly looking at colleges that have solid reputations for their majors. And sometimes they end up NOT at their reach schools, because they find a better fit elsewhere when visiting, and/or they take a merit aid offer that's too good to pass up. Which happened to my oldest: he got into his dream program, and turned it down for a middle of the road private university that he felt suited him better, and who had offered him a guaranteed scholarship for 5 years. My second wants a cold climate and is looking at Canadian and Oxbridge type schools. As I said, we also have European roots, so they don't feel married to the Ivy League.

Look broadly. Pick the best fit.

Oxford and Cambridge are cool and wet, not cold. median of 45 degrees to 64.

[Anonymous]

Vanderbilt, USC, NYU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious what you have seen with your children and their other Asian friends. And I'm not talking about the consistent Asian dream schools (Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Caltech, Penn, Yale), but schools that are perhaps less obvious. In my daughter's friend group I've been seeing a surprising level of interest in Georgia Tech for example.

Wouldn’t this depend on the student? How is this even a question?

[Anonymous]

Rice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find your post extremely reductive, OP.

Why assume that Asians are looking differently at colleges? Asian cultures are many and varied. Some hail directly from their native land, others have been here, or elsewhere in the western world, for years, or generations. Some families are poor or uneducated. Some have kids that aren't high-performing. This thread strengthens stereotypes, and that's never good.

My Euro-Asian kids and their friends, Asian or not, are mostly looking at colleges that have solid reputations for their majors. And sometimes they end up NOT at their reach schools, because they find a better fit elsewhere when visiting, and/or they take a merit aid offer that's too good to pass up. Which happened to my oldest: he got into his dream program, and turned it down for a middle of the road private university that he felt suited him better, and who had offered him a guaranteed scholarship for 5 years. My second wants a cold climate and is looking at Canadian and Oxbridge type schools. As I said, we also have European roots, so they don't feel married to the Ivy League.

Look broadly. Pick the best fit.

Agreed, many DCUMers too narrowly focused

[Anonymous]

NYU, Wake Forest, Middlebury

[Anonymous]

Emory, WashU, NYU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, WUSTL, UChicago

+1 despite the other thread, plenty of DMV public school high stats Asians are interested, applying and will attend, if accepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:East Asian parents here.

Yes there is a list of top schools that many Asian parents want to send their kids to.

But not all Asian kids are super smart. For those kids, I noticed that Asian parents prefer big in-state public schools (for Virginia, UVa, VT, GMU, VCU, etc) over smaller public schools (such as MWC and CNU).

You will have a hard time finding Asian kids at less known private schools like Roanoke college or Randolph Macon.

yep, like the SLACs because the ROI is not there.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/legacy/posts/list/1160539.page

[Anonymous]

brown, columia, mich, and uva

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Asian parents here.

Yes there is a list of top schools that many Asian parents want to send their kids to.

But not all Asian kids are super smart. For those kids, I noticed that Asian parents prefer big in-state public schools (for Virginia, UVa, VT, GMU, VCU, etc) over smaller public schools (such as MWC and CNU).

You will have a hard time finding Asian kids at less known private schools like Roanoke college or Randolph Macon.

yep, like the SLACs because the ROI is not there.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/legacy/posts/list/1160539.page

Depends on who is doing the calculation and with what data. Princeton Review's list of top 50 ROI among privates is about 40% LAC.

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=top-50-best-value-colleges-private-schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Asian parents here.

Yes there is a list of top schools that many Asian parents want to send their kids to.

But not all Asian kids are super smart. For those kids, I noticed that Asian parents prefer big in-state public schools (for Virginia, UVa, VT, GMU, VCU, etc) over smaller public schools (such as MWC and CNU).

You will have a hard time finding Asian kids at less known private schools like Roanoke college or Randolph Macon.

yep, like the SLACs because the ROI is not there.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/legacy/posts/list/1160539.page

Depends on who is doing the calculation and with what data. Princeton Review's list of top 50 ROI among privates is about 40% LAC.

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=top-50-best-value-colleges-private-schools

Depends on what they target to for studies. Most Asian kids likely target STEM and SLACs are weak in that area. By STEM, I mean the hard-core variety like CS and Engineering.

[Anonymous]

1. Top 20
2. In-state schools such as UVA, VT, UMD
3. Diverse urban schools like CMU, USC, NYU, BU, Northeastern