In some trouble

juillet
Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:17:39 +0000

Are you afraid that your parents will react negatively if you are just honest with them? Because if your parents have your best interests at heart, I think that you should just be honest with them and tell them what you said here - that you’d rather be a big fish in a smaller pond, and that you really want to go to a great but not highly selective university with a strong physics department. You can say also that you feel that starting out in a less competitive place means you could work on yourself personally and really grow and develop as a person.