Reply to Helicopter parents

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Helicopter parents "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All ivies except Cornell. They are like ants at the rest - the heavily curated experiences the parents manufactured for the kids to get into the ivies shifts over to targeting IB or MBB internships [/quote]

Ah-  not at all. My kid is at one. We didn’t even have it on our radar. He applied senior year on a whim- not a “manifactured” kid,

It’s the opposite. These kids are all
Very independent with some wild backgrounds. My kid has been abroad sophomore year and summer internships overseas. I have zero idea what goes on there. [/quote]

+1. My kid went to HS school in DC and we live in a very urban walkable area so public transportation/independence was natural. The first night he rented a zip car and was in one state over for a sports tryout—which blew his friend’s (from the Midwest) mind-didn’t even know what a zip car was. My kid knew the entire city bus system. Second year- was on study abroad, same thing—shopped, cooked, handled health issue, etc.  He’s always been a problem solver. I actually felt the Ivy parents much more relaxed, not as helicopter/over-bearing, as the NoVA parents at admitted day at some of our state schools.

But all of this is kid-family specific. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics