Parental pressure horror stories

ucsd_ucla_dad
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:57:23 +0000

Marite:

Yeah - I was referring to easy majors (don’t require as many units to graduate, don’t require as much work, and tend to accept more AP credits) and ‘partying’ as in activities not related to the education. I don’t count a lot of the ECs in this “not related” category since working with campus newspapers, working in labs as interns, joining certain other clubs, doing work/study, and especially exploring other perhaps non-required courses, etc. can and generally do enhance the learning experience. I’ve just seen some students who are taking a minimal load and filling up ther time with non-educational related activities rather than exploring other courses (i.e. taking some out-of-the-box exploratory sessions), or being involved in educational ECs. Really, in some cases, the parents end up paying for an extra year or thereabouts of college as a result and have effectively paid $25-45K so their kid can party. btw - I’m lucky in that I haven’t had this issue with my kids myself.