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Maybe I don't get it bc I'm Asian, but why can't you push your kids? We were pushed growing up. Not every kid was an academic genius -- most weren't in fact. And yet due to very high parental expectations my Asian friends/siblings/I are ivy grads; med school grads; lawyers (all top 10 schools) etc. Sure some kids got it easily, some kids had SAT tutoring starting in 7th grade to make it to a 1500+ score. There are advantages and doors that open from certain schools and certain professions - as you well know. Why not push the kids? And I don't get why people are bagging on OP. Sorry I had certain expectations for myself educationally/professionally/financially and I expect the same of my kids. I'm not suggesting that it's going to come down to -- I went to MIT so you must go to MIT, but I do expect them to go to comparable schools and sorry to me Va. Tech and UVa and UMD aren't it.[/quote]

PP, I hope for your children's sake that they live up to your expectations of them.[/quote]

They will. My expectations are not nearly as onerous as the ones I/my friends grew up with. I am not demanding that they MUST be doctors; I am not demanding that they MUST go to Harvard.  Frankly they know even now that they have career choices of – medicine/dental; I banking; or law; and I’d live with engineering.  They must choose from those – I am not choosing for them.  I am also not requiring any particular school – they know that any ivy; MIT; Chicago; and a handful of others are all perfectly fine so they literally have to just get into 1.  None of this is impossible and frankly my friends growing up who HAD to be doctors (even though they wanted a different respectable profession – engineering) had it much worse.[/quote]

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