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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it sad to admit your child needs extra help and get them a good tutor?

Am I missing something?[/quote]

I am not the PP. Reading the thread and the mentions of "sad" the word seems to relate to parents getting tutors early on just to have their kid barely cling to the top math group, or get into a top magnet high school, all the while pushing and pushing their kid to gun for ivies or even "lower" T20s when these colleges are filled with students who sailed through the hardest high school programs with no tutors. That is how I interpret it, for one: it is indeed sad to tiger-parent your child to try to be something they are not, rather than be in the math level they naturally should be in, even if that is just average in their ridiculous private school, and then trust the process that they will land in a college that suits them, where they have a chance to keep up with the other students or even stand out a little. This race to the top schools that everyone (on DCum) craves yet only a small portion of high school students academically can handle is troubling and wrong. Accept the kid you have at the level they naturally are. [/quote]

This is a very american middle class white attitude.  Find someplace you can excel at comfortably and go there.  Big fish small pond.
The asian immigrant attitude is to strive for the most challenging atmosphere and you might find yourself rising to the occasion.  Run with the swift.

They both have their pros and cons.[/quote]

hi have to jump in bc your attitude is actually the narrow middle class one. [b]the naturally smart no study kid at MIT[/b], and the kid that is secure enough to try but ok going to second tier and flourishes w their high EQ at Wash U, are unlike your middle class striver approach.
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Times have changed, grandpa. I know quite a few kids at MIT and not a single one is a "no study" type. They are all very hard working and also brilliant. Even prodigies work hard.[/quote]

There are very few kids coasting through MIT.[/quote]

There is no one coasting through MIT. Or any STEM program generally, but particularly the ones with the smarty pants - MIT, Stanford, Rice, Georgia Tech, Berkeley, CMU, Cornell, Michigan, Texas

I went to a neighboring school of MIT. Smart, ambitious kids actually do study. [/quote]

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