It was a good article. But she does acknowledge that her college wouldn't accept her now, great SAT scores or not. It is a different world from the 70s. And she hope her 12 year old will find a similar school. The problem, like she writes, those foreign students have a 4.0 GPA and great scores. Between India and China there are 6X as many of them. Take 2X off for India since 800 million are in poverty, but still, they do not have enough universities yet to accomodate and they are looking for spots. I want my kid to have a spot.
On Morning Joe today, they were talking about Amy Chua -- of course. All these successful people talk about how strict their parents were growing up and they were successful and perhaps Americans have gone too soft and maybe a call to move towards the center and more "Chinese style" parenting.
I do not want a college for my kid that will take her, I want a college for my kid that she wants.
Ren
