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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I've been reading all kinds of anecdotal stories here about someone who knew someone who knew a tiger mom'd kid who Hopelessly Collapsed in College. [/b]I'm not interested in such third-hand gossip here, I want to hear from current or former tiger moms themselves.

You put your kid through everything from Kumon to prestige summer programs and now they're presumably at or graduated from an institution of no little prestige. How did it work out? Do you have any regrets? Advice?

Thanks in advance![/quote]

I've seen it. It's because it's relatively easy to scheme a kid into a selective undergrad by micro-managing them to pump their GPA, test prep and private tutors, and polishing their Common App. But once the teen is out of your house and away at college, there's no way you can micro manage them and curate their friends and stay on top of their assignments, so they regress to who they REALLY are. They're not [i]collapsing[/i] so much as showing you who they REALLY are.[/quote]

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