<p>mom: i hope you get at least 2400 on your next SAT because you really screwed up the last one
me: okay.jpg</p>
<p>but anyway, she was only half-serious. trying my best on it is good enough for them; my EC’s and GPA are solid. with this current score, the school i want to go to is a match–but it’d be nicer to have it as a safety, y’know?</p>
<p>um my parents used to be really/ obsessed with scores and then i pretty much just told them scores aren’t everything, and now they’re much more lax lolol.</p>
<p>Every time I see “lax” I think of “lacrosse.”</p>
<p>Also…that’s a really big ‘really.’</p>
<p>I know right!</p>
<p>and i love your location.</p>
<p>off-topic…
yeah, a lot of asian parents think high scores automatically guarantee admission into an ivy league. so untrue.</p>
<p>Fortunately, my (Asian) parents know better than ivy league admissions just being about high scores.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, they think it’s only the obvious foundations to getting into one. Of course, you also have to stand out from the crowd, and being from a competitive school, this would mean things like Siemens and NIH and USABO for sure. And even then, a URM with a worse resume would have higher chances because colleges “hate” Asians, especially ones that can’t do sports and is more science-oriented.</p>
<p>But alas, no one can have a perfect family. I’m just glad my parents are aware that after 2200+, SAT score doesn’t really matter.</p>
<p>To zzzz1027,</p>
<p>I wrote in my last post how talented you are and many people like will be fortunate be in 10% of your accomplishments, since everything knows success is evident with talents.</p>
<p>But let me write you from a different standpoint. My only validation is I am a not-white, immigrated to this country. </p>
<p>My feeling is: all Asian feels that for same outcome, Asians may need to accomplish more. May be this belief came from some ‘data’. of course these data may be sliced & diced in many ways. But one would see the validation for the need of ‘more accomplishments’.</p>
<p>May be your parents are extremely proud of you and thing so v highly about you and they can not accept anything below their expectation. And who doesn’t know that Asians who immigrated here are NOT always the best communicator at home or their comfortable zone. There is no less data to support it also.</p>
<p>I am confident that with your this package, when you will be accepted in a top ranked school- they will be the most proud and will tell people zzzz should get in there…look at his/her score &…</p>
<p>That’s the way it generally goes. But I do know that parents more of the time don’t believe that admissions in the ‘top schools’ are NOT a single variable function called SAT score. It’s dependent on a ‘package’, but who will teach them (those parents)!!??</p>
<p>So just wait for their confident to come back… and please let us know where you have accepted the offer.</p>
<p>To zzzz1027,</p>
<p>I faced a similar situation to you. To begin with, I began my sophomore year with an 1830 SAT score. One diagnostic test later, that was a ~1950. As an asian who normally receives a 4.0 UW GPA, my parents thought this was preposterous. After SAT camp during the summer, I’ve risen to a 2180 at max, though I did score above a 2200, but that was because I was given a test I’ve taken before. So, I understand that “underachieving” is extremely painful and results countless arguments for your parents.</p>
<p>But, what may be astonishing is that on my first SAT, I scored a 2240. On my second, I scored a 2350. Though my parents would attribute it to only luck and my teachers, I credit it with the self-belief that I could succeed. Right before the 2350, I scored two ~2000s, not even higher than a 2100, and my parents completely cut my off. But on the last day before the test, I practiced and had confidence in myself. When I took the test, I felt extremely exuberant. Nothing could go wrong.</p>
<p>So, with these in mind, I would recommend you to ignore your parents. Asian parents always say similar things, and after a while, they lose meaning as the words are based off asian tradition. As previous responses have mentioned, SAT score isn’t everything. Believe in yourself, that’s the first step.</p>
<p>Hope this helps,
Cheers.</p>
<p>Just prove your parents wrong. </p>
<p>When you get accepted to a top tier school, rub it in their faces with a big “I told you so!”</p>
<p>Lol… I remember last year, my parents got so disappointed when I got a 2290. After I found out, my mom called 30 minutes later to ask me what I got. When I told her, she let out an audible sigh of extreme disappointment. When she got home, she got mad at me and told me about a dozen other Asian kids she knows who got 2300+s. </p>
<p>Even though I’m going to one of my top choices, which is a top 20 school, my parents are still a little disappointed that I didn’t break the 2300 benchmark so they can’t brag that I got a 2300 when Asian parents compare their kids’ SAT scores lol</p>
<p>anything over 2200 and your parents should not complain. IDC if their asian or not</p>
<p>^ I believe the term you’re looking for is “egg.”</p>
<p>I only have my (Chinese) father, and he doesn’t care what I do in high school. Maybe it’s better this way, but I can feel extremely angry toward other people with houses, 2 parent-household, people with siblings, etc.
So I get to do what interests me, which is read research papers on math, do competitions, etc. (Almost made MOP, too much testing pressure, now a honorable mention)</p>
<p>Wow. I’m 1/2 asian, and I have next to no pressure. It certainly is sad that this happens, but I think your parents are pressuring you because they believe in you, and they want you to get the best education possible. That being said, you should get them to back off.</p>
<p>I know Asians who could never live up to these reputations</p>
<p>Im chinese and my parents said anything below a 2400 is a dissapointment. I thought they were joking, but when I laughed, their facial expressions didnt change O_O. Good thing I took the act, got a 33, and I told them the max score on the act was a 33, bahahah.</p>
<p>my parents are asian…they dont gaf. I took the sat my first time in 10th grade with no prep at all and got a 1900. I think I did pretty good and my parents thought so too</p>
<p>My mom is asian and she (like ^) doesn’t give a crap. Like once I got a 2160 (first BB test… So SUPER easy) and I was SO happy and my mom was like, “Get a social life!”</p>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, my NON-ASIAN stepdad is so crazy about SAT scores. This is his scale:</p>
<p>2100- You can do better
2200- You can do better
2300- You can do better
2400- Good</p>
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<p>rusty … help me understand you … </p>
<p>no but i thought you were happy to go to georgia tech i think you said and didn’t care about ivies and so on. </p>
<p>so why do you wish your environment had been one which encouraged you to take the SAT more seriously? an increase from 2270 in the absence of other contaminant improvements in other parts of your app wouldn’t really do that much to increase your chances for admission at the best universities… </p>
<p>on the other hand, saying you got a 2350 to those no good basketball playing kids would have been way cooler than 2270… or would it have been?</p>
<p>aw i’m not really trolling. so i guess you would have pursued getting admitted to a better school had you been a competitive applicant for them… but it doesn’t bother you very much and you’re happy enough to go to a less good school. okay.</p>
<p>i appreciate your clarification :).</p>
<p>To all of the last 6 posts,</p>
<p>It’s so encouraging to see that all kids of Asian parents did so brilliantly in SAT or similar exams. My guess would be these Asians are NOT from Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia or Korea, Pakistan or Bangladesh. My guess most of them would be Chinese, rest would be from Japan. I have no idea, whether Indian kids are part of these examples or not.</p>
<p>At any rate, nobody wrote, ultimately where they ended up going (with multiple acceptance or not), with whatever score they had, ranging from 1980-. That’s a crucial part of this threads to guide parents, future students and other readers. Ultimately that’s what we all want to hear.</p>