<p>OP,
If your parents are paying for your college education, they have every right to give you advice.</p>
<p>If you don’t want them to guide you or give you any advice, then you should foot all your College expense yourself. If not, clam up and listen to them.</p>
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And there lies your problem. You are waiting for someone to “challenge” you. How about challenging yourself? How about studying something you’re interested in, or going further than expected in class? Or are you only doing it for “the grade”?</p>
<p>If I were your parent, looking at an expensive school for you, I’d say, “Prove it first. I’m not going to spend this much (even if I can afford it), and have you flunk out because you never learned how to work. Maybe you can rise to it if you’re challenged, but maybe you can’t. Show me some initiative and some intellectual curiousity, and we’ll talk.”</p>
<p>Chedva: that is a great point. Thank you everyone for your advice, and I think everything you say is true.</p>
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Going further than expected in class is like, getting 100s, when I only need a 93 for “the grade.” Although I do agree with doing something I’m interested in (and I DO do things I’m interested in, like math…), I don’t agree with “challenging” myself to have the highest average in the class. I don’t see the point in memorizing pointless detail to get an 100 when a 93 would do, since that pointless detail would probably be forgotten in a week and never be useful ever again. Feel free to correct me in this assertion. I would definitely rather take that time and do more math problems, for example. Although right now most competitions are over. I could start studying for next year, true, but it’s so far away that there’s little motivation for me :P</p>
<p>i relate. my parents are REALLY annoying me right now. my dad is being crazy. its like, im a senior, im about to graduate, im getting into all these great colleges, and i turned 18 last week. but he decides that now is a good time to tell me that im not allowed to eat in the study. after ive been doing that for the past ten years. freak. and they’re being really mean about college in general. </p>
<p>thats my rant.</p>
<p>What’s the point of this thread? It seems like the OP is just rambling on and on.</p>
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<li>Sorry OP, but you asked for it (literally!).</li>
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<p>That is comPLETEly false. For most classes, even APs, it’s not the subject material that’s hard, it’s the sheer amount of homework that the teachers assign because THEY think that their class is hard. Out of all 10 APs I’ve taken, one qualified as “hard”: AP Chem. Most of the others just had a lot of busywork. Studying isn’t always necessary, even for the AP exams.</p>
<p>yeah…and my teachers don’t assign hw…so yeah. But I would say my school’s classes are quite challenging, considering everyone gets 5s, even the people with failing averages.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean not challenging as in poorly taught; the AP material isn’t always challenging in of itself (my school gets more than its fair share of 5s as well.)</p>
<p>My parents are the polar opposite…at least about ECs. My mom always asks me if I’m staying after school, and for what. Also, if I had to stay after school last minute for something that just came up which I didn’t know about, my mom would always call to see where I was (if I forgot to tell her). I used to get annoyed, thinking that she was always suspicious, but I realized shes a mom, and I should appreciate that she gives a ****.</p>
<p>Grades are different. I get good grades, and I’m naturally panicky when I don’t finish homework/study for a test, so they don’t worry. There have even been times when my parents didn’t look at my report card and just took my word for it. LOL</p>