<p>While the stereotype holds true a certain extent (I knew a Chinese kid whose parents made him draw math problems in the sand when on vacation at the beach), but it’s not all like that. Perhaps my case is an outlier, but I come from an Asian family (I am first gen. to be born in America), where my parents are pretty much supportive of whatever my brother and I do. Proof of this, my brother graduated from an ART college majoring in film a few years back, and neither parents suffered from cardiac arrest. They’d probably prefer for him to become a world-class heart surgeon, engineer or business attorney–but they didn’t try to force or groom him to become one.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, I’m looking into social sciences/English and have an interest in teaching. While I have a few Ivy league aspirations (mainly Brown and Columbia), it’s completely self-motivated. I just feel like these institutions would be pretty ballin’–for the education and for the experience.</p>