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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grinding is great. Athletes and research scientists are the ultimate grinders, just pushing through no matter the difficulty.

The ‘grinder’ on the other hand is taking their 7th period course while at the same time adding mediocre DE courses at night because their parents are pushing for more, more, more. It’s not about passion, it is about a single minded focus on what constitutes merit in their families and communities POV.

[b]Meanwhile, their parents,  not understanding the nature of college admissions in the US are screaming and crying about holistic admissions and demanding that nothing but gpa and be considered.[/b] [/quote]

Xenophobic much?[/quote]

NP: I'm not the person you are replying to but I 100% agree. So many immigrants come here and expect the system to adapt to them. Those who do the best are those who learn how the system works and work within it. There are countless ridiculously successful immigrants who do just this. So stop throwing terms like that around without knowing what you are talking about - just making it worse and proving the point.[/quote]

I’d say my immigrant family learned and adapted just fine, as my siblings and I count Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Penn, and Wharton among our undergrad and graduate alma maters. The two college-aged kids in the next generation are now at two of the above as well. No one in our community expected the system to adapt to them.[/quote]

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