I attended a few seminars by popular college consulting firms in this area and all of them were really disappointing.
At the first seminar, the counselor bragged about how impressive letter of recommendation he wrote for his client (student from Italy) since the teacher of the client was not fluent in English and as a result, she was admitted to one of IVY school.
Another popular consulting firm in this area hired the person with criminal record (sentenced with 1 million kickback) as a consultant and he is still working as senior director there.
The third consulting firm gave the presentation to group of parents and all they provided were the list of competitions to impress admission officers. Unfortunately, none of these resume improvement tips were compelling to me. As a matter of fact, I got the impression that such service may ruin my kids in the long run.
Maybe, it is simply because I havenât found the good one. However, I guess I spent enough time to figure out if there would be real benefit of such service.
I have to wonder how many freshmen got into UCs using consultants or other cute techniques. According to my son, out of 382 students taking the data structure course (a lower division CS course), only 115 students passed i.e. 267 students have to repeat. 45 got A/B and 70 got C. Cutting off % for C is 50. How did these freshmen got admitted to CS/ CE/ EE class?
Sounds like that professor went to MIT. They believe the homework should be difficult enough that most students will only score a 50%. Exams are 3 questions. C students get the 1st right, B students get the 1st and 2nd right, and A students get all 3 right. The third question will always have something new that wasnât in lecture or homework.
I do agree that the bigness of the UC is not for everyone. When my buddyâs daughter got accepted to all of the 3 top UC schools, I warned her dad that because she went to a relatively small high school here in the Fab 7x7 that it will be a big change for her. Not to mention that the quarter system at UCLA where she is headed is fastr paced as opposed to the typical semester format. 5 weeks in, bam, you got mid-terms. Well, he said it would be good for her to branch out and come out of her shell. Hey, school and life are all about learning not only about subjects but really about yourself. Yes, I may not be a Russell Westbrook (shoot, he only stayed what 2 yrs?) but my time at UCLA was well spent and that is why probably Russell and I share a real liking for the old girlâŚ
Some girls donât really need to care too much about school because they always have an option of marrying rich dudes⌠of course these girls need to be prettyâŚ
Well, my buddyâs daughter seems to be a hard worker like her dad. She worked all of her summers in fairly cool (real) jobs and I believe she was valedictorian for her class. She is like my one niece who scares the sheet out of me. For a very little girl now, she is too smart. When a waiter asked her what would she like to drink and she responded a vodka please, Uncle Dragonboy was sweating cuz she meant itâŚ
That is a touchy subject and honestly can go either way. I grew up a poor city kid, so I am biased against private schools and mainly because honestly my experiences with folks graduating from private schools is not all that. If anything, we kids who went to regular schools and public universities turned out fine and successful enough. Private is def not necessarily better.
I went to a UC for undergrad. I think it is great for those who are self-motivated. At least when I was in school (a while ago), it was a great value and gave an opportunity for many from struggling or middle-class families to advance. Any student needing some time to mature or handholding will be in trouble and would be better served at a smaller private school.
Hum⌠you mentioned earlier that you would buy nice home for your sons but not for your daughter since that should come from her future husband (family).
I thought that you were joking but it sounds like you meant it based on repetitive patterns of your comment.
What if she doesnât want to get married?
I hope her to grow up as an independent and successful lady not needing anything from her parents or husband (if any).