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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel the most sorry for the child of recent immigrants (who often are) from a country where a national exam score determines which college one can attend. So many of those kids are under so much pressure at home to bring in only As and nothing B or below. Those immigrant parents sometimes do not understand that “Mary” whose parent and grandparent went to X and have been giving big bucks to X for multiple generations and has a mix of As and Bs has a huge advantage with X at admissions time.  Some kids can thrive under pressure, but many do not thrive.[/quote]

This happens more in countries where  there's such a large differnce in quality of life between UMC and LMC.  UMC families in the US have incomes that are 3X-5X  more than LMC families and people from countries (e.g. China, India) where that difference is even larger are aware of the pitfalls of not attaining UMC.

This doesn't happen as much in egalitarian societies - there's not as much competition to get into the best universities in, e.g. Sweden and Denmark. Mostly because UMC income is only 1.5-2X that of  LMC.

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