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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents helicopter over kids to get them into “top tier” schools and then completely drop the ball when it comes to helping them choose a lucrative or “impressive” field of study. If you are going to go through all the trouble of hovering over your child so they get into Harvard, why would you pay for them to study interpretive dance?

I’m more impressed by a kid in a pre med program at a mid tier school than a kid studying creative writing at an ivy. [/quote]

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Just like travel sports obsessed parents whose sporty kid quickly quits the sport at college -- you can't force a college student to do anything, let alone micromanage some perfect "impressive" college resume for them. I don't care if your teen is going to college less than five miles away from your house at Georgetown, you can't control them anymore. They pick the courses and major they want, go to class when they want, care enough to put the study hours in to perform well or not well at all in courses you wish they'd ace, bomb pre-med weed out courses (hello change of major!), ignore office hours, sleep in, not join the clubs and ECs you want them to, think recruiting and networking events are pointless and corny, not follow through on a mentor your husband tries to link them with. And they can white lie to you and mislead you that everything is great. Your power over them after dorm move-in day is practically nonexistent -- and attempts to assert parental power will just make them lie to you more, make them more defiant for the sake of asserting their own independence, or they'll casually ghost you. What are you going to do, stop paying for their tuition at Penn? Of course not -- and they know that.[/quote]

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