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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know several Indian parents, and it seems common among them to justify their child's decision to decline a TJ offer by attributing it to reasons like distance, college admissions, or sleep deprivation, rather than admitting their child lacks confidence to handle TJ's rigorous curriculum. It's quite annoying when these parents repeatedly bring up the topic by themselves, boasting about how their child received a TJ offer but turned it down, as if the offer alone validates their child's academic ability. These are worst parents to get advise from when evaluating a TJ offer, as they go to great lengths to convince of drawbacks of TJ.  I'm glad we didn't take their input seriously, and accepted our TJ offer.  [/quote]

You are 100% correct ( i am an Indian myself)... its more for self gratification than for any of those things they mention. These are parents who are trying to live their unrealized dreams through their kids lives while trying to up their social stature within the community. For those exact same reasons mentioned - we didnt apply to TJ at all...kid is waitlisted in AOS/AET both at this time. If not either of those, perfectly fine with the base school. Sun will rise the next day![/quote]

In my view - The above 2 posts are a generalized ill informed opinion :

Irrespective of nationality/ethnicity - I think lot of parents who reject TJ or AOL do not do apply  for self gratification . Most of the parents go by kids opinion/suggestion by teacher  and apply for both schools knowing well that they have to reject either of one if the kids gets into both. Reason for that is they want to provide the kids options to choose from.

Every year There have been cases of kids who got into AOL and TJ but later changed mind to go to Base school for multitude of reasons..  [/quote]
You misunderstood. The poster is not suggesting that kids shouldn't apply to both TJ and AOL. They are referring to what parents did after decisions were made, boasting perennially about letting go of their TJ lottery offer.[/quote]

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