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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Defining college success by the number of Harvard admits just shows the narrow backwards attitude at STA. If that's your criteria for life success, go to StA. If you want your child to go to the right collegiate fit and thrive, go elsewhere.[/quote]

As OP and Asian Parent - Unfortunately I belong to the former.... Over here success in life and business is generally defined by having a good primary/middle/high school education and entering a college with stellar reputation. (Like OXBRIDGE and the IVIES) Even though we detest this idea but we are forced to conform under peer pressure.

It's just a different mindset in a different culture, I guess.

And it did not surprise me when I learned that a lot of my friends in business who have planned on sending their children to the USA have never heard of schools such as UChicago, Northwestern, Georgetown, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, and were completely foreign to the concept of LACs. [/quote]

Maybe overseas Asian parents, but the ones that live here are VERY familiar with LACs and UChicago, etc.  For PP who mentioned that it leaves you less competition for these schools, I wouldn't count on it.  You'll be surprised, most Asian parents also know graduate schools rankings, medical specialty rankings, law, etc.[/quote]

OP - Yes, I am living overseas. You've made a correct statement. As a matter of fact I heard about those schools from my sister in the States. But many others still stay oblivious to the fact that there are many alternative options to the ivies, Stanford, and MIT. To All PPs - I don't mean to offend anybody with what I said, and I am just stating a point that I found interesting. You're also right with the second part, and I find that most overseas Asian parents send their kids to graduate schools and much fewer to colleges and LACs. I guess the trend for colleges just started a couple years earlier.  [/quote]

I think that first generation immigrant parents--and generally speaking, families of any ethnicity that do not have graduate degree holders--tend to think of Ivies as the top colleges. However, once you start getting to know more established Asian American families and families where members hold graduate degrees from top universities, you start hearing more and more about the most selective liberal arts colleges as preferred undergraduate institutions, with the expectation that children will go on from there to larger universities for graduate school.[/quote]

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