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zhanka's most recent comments:
- On 3 Oct 2012
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zhanka said:
You're right, they are different. However, before we moved the second child to a different school (same city), her grades were always better than the first one. Not anymore. Can't say it any better than this:
zhanka says
Kids personalities are defined by those they hang around with.
I have other examples, 3 different families (our friends) decided to move their kids from private schools to a good public schools (Los Gatos and Cupertino), all those kids were doing good before, now 2 kids are failing HS and have some other issues, other one is just not doing as good as he did in Harker.
The rout you took thru community collegeI is fine for kids I will quote myself:
zhanka says
For those of you who has kids who know what they want and how to get it, it doesn't matter what school they are going, but for all other it does make a difference.
- On 28 Sep 2012
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API test scores and real estate prices,
zhanka said:
it was mine :) - On 26 Sep 2012
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API test scores and real estate prices,
zhanka said:
pkennedy says
Kids personalities are defined by those they hang around with. Put your kid into a crappy school, there is a very good chance he'll start aligning life goals along with his peers. Put him in a rich school, and he'll start aligning his expectations with those kids. Every step up helps.
Goran_K says
Also if people actually understood how top schools pick incoming freshman, then they would know that some of the top universities try to pick from the Top 5-10% of the class. So going to a hyper-competitive school can actually hurt an applicants case because it's so much harder to bubble to the top, where if they had gone to a slightly less competitive school, they would have been in the Top 5%. Some parents tried to make a huge issue about it a few years ago because people thought the UC system was unfair, but the system still stands today.
No one cares if you're a 50th percentile kid from Top High School USA with an API score of 990.
Both these statements are true, however, from my experience (two kids, one went to school with API 949, another is still in HS with API 893), I see a huge difference in attitude and level of intelligence of kids that are going to these schools. True, it is almost imposible to be top 10% in school with 930+ with almost perfect GPA and all 5s in AP classes and compete with kids who are top 10% in other schools. However, majority of these kids are still ahead of other kids even if they don't get in to the Harvard, Stanford... Our child wasn't fortunate to get in to the top 20%, among top schools she was accepted were NYU, Carnegie Mellon, never get off of waiting list from Chicago and UC San Diego, and declined from UCLA and UCB. She choose to go to UCSB, she is a honor student, top 1% in her class, and its her 2nd year in school, but she already has a Junior standing. If everything goes well, she will get her bachelor degree in 3 years (not 4), big saving and this time around will most likely have a better chance to get in to the top 10% schools. She is majoring in bio-chemistry by the way, not English….
I don't see my other one is motivated as the first one and only explanation I see is the school. She says not only teachers, but also kids are different in her school from those she used to go with before.
For those of you who has kids who know what they want and how to get it, it doesn't matter what school they are going, but for all other it does make a difference.
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