<p>The OP has made a lot of statements that just aren’t panning out, including acceptances and scholarships at a variety of schools, with Vandy ED but she can get out of it. Really? Everyone is assuming that her describing her mother as abusive makes it so, yet I think there are many teens in the world who would describe their parents are draconian. Doesn’t make it so. </p>
<p>I know a lot of Asian parents (I have an Asian child so we interact with the community). Some do have high standards, but I just don’t have enough info to advise this child to get out, leave her world behind AND that she’ll have enough money to go full time to college and not work. I don’t think she (or many on this board) realize how hard it is to be all on your own at 18 with nothing. No car, no health insurance, no ability to get a credit card, tough to get a bank account without paying for it, etc. Being 18, unemployed, and homeless is not a good thing, but don’t immediately go into debt with student loans.</p>