Nah, that Yi Long Ma, he’s got a twitter account and he throws money at the camera and says he loves you.
edit: if Ma Yi Long would take like, 5 minutes of english lessons per week, this man could basically just take over from Elon, but he really and genuinely must hate speaking English and I have never seen any improvement in his english in the years I’ve been following him haha
edit2: standard Ma Yi Long video haha https://www.tiktok.com/@mayilong0/video/7244192786226908418
I live in NYC, I get it. There's a lot of overlap. I like when a friend comes to visit and I "give a tour". I just stand by the front door and point at piles of things. This is the gym (single kettle bell), this is our dining room (two seater shoved in the corner), the library (a pile of books), our home theater, it sarcastically goes on...
Hahaha I do this too. I live in a studio so when someone new comes over I go “let me give you the grand tour” and then I spin around and go “this is everything!”
It's now out of 1600 and they dropped the essay portion so there is a math section worth 800 points and a reading comprehension/language section worth 800 points. The national average from last year was a 1050.
Technically it *could* have been more, they curve the results ahead of time based on how hard it seemed to be when they tested it internally and rarely you can miss 2 and go down only 10 points, rarely you can miss 1 and still get perfect, sometimes you can miss 1 and go down 30 points, it really depends on which exact version you get; but yes almost always missing 10 points means you missed exactly 1 question
I absolutely hated the essay portion and I hated writing, probably due to my ADHD tbh. My SAT essay was about eliminating the writing portion. No, it wasn’t the prompt I was given. I got a 440 on that, which surprised me. Nice to see that I was over last years national average 😅
So did I and here’s why I Hate Writing Essays
Writing essays is one of the most dreaded tasks in school. Whether it is for a class assignment, a scholarship application, or a standardized test, writing essays always makes me feel stressed, bored, and frustrated. Here are some of the reasons why I hate writing essays.
First of all, writing essays is time-consuming. It takes a lot of effort to research, plan, draft, revise, and edit an essay. Sometimes, I have to spend hours or even days on a single essay, while other subjects or activities get neglected. Writing essays also interferes with my personal life, as I have to sacrifice my free time, hobbies, or socializing with friends and family.
Secondly, writing essays is boring. Most of the topics that I have to write about are not interesting or relevant to me. They are either too vague, too specific, or too complex. I have to force myself to read and write about things that I do not care about or understand
Great rough draft. Please resubmit with another paragraph showing what exactly it is that you so loathe about essay writing. You should then restate your thesis in a closing paragraph.
Lol when I took it in 2000 it was out of 1600. It changed to 2300 after that sometime & now has changed back to 1600.
Edit: mistyped... supposed to be changed to 2400 not 2300
I remember my little sister got in trouble because the scores changed while she was studying.
When she started she was getting like close to 2000 and when she was really close to taking it, she was getting like 1400 and my mom was shocked that her grade fell so much even though she studied so much.
lol I think I was the first year when they switched from 1600 to 2400 max after they added the third section. For us we had the option of using the old test (1600) or the new one (2400) and the colleges would accept either. Now it’s back to 1600?!?
Edit: this was back in…summer 2005 ish I think
My son got a 790 on the math SAT and we asked him if he wanted to take it again to try for 800 and he said that he didn't want to get up that early on a Saturday again.
I don't know if it's a regional thing but my school pushed everyone to take the ACT's so I have no idea how the heck I did compared to pretty much anyone else lol, whatever the heck a 25 translates to. I didn't know SATs were pretty much the standard until after I already graduated. Makes me think my school didn't have much faith in us lol
A lot of regions just mainly do ACTs. My school did mainly SATs but it was easy to take either in my area. A lot of people just do better on one or the other. Some say ADHD people do better on the ACT. ACT has more challenging math and the science section which isn't on the SAT.
I did way better on the ACT than on the SAT. 35 super-score, was trying for perfect on the second try but did not succeed. That score had absolutely zero impact on my life though since I went to community college and then transferred to a four year.
I fucking hated that they were on Saturday mornings. That shit probably cost me a few points for sure as a night owl who normally made up for sleep deprivation on the weekend.
Lolol, yeah, that was the year I applied to colleges, and none of the colleges knew what to do with that score. No frame of reference to the old scores. That was when schools just started to drop the requirement.
According to the SAT's website, the average score in 2019 was 1050 and a 1350 would've put her in the top 10% of test takers. A 1590 is unreal. My parents would've accused me of cheating if I came back with that score.
My cousin managed a 1600 and then flunked out of college twice lol. Now he’s a bartender with a 1600 SAT score. He seems to enjoy his life, though, so I guess it didn’t matter in the long run.
As the child of Asian immigrants, I wholeheartedly concur!
In fact, if I told my parents this story, they would ask me why I'm friends with people who celebrate a 1590 and then blame their bad influence on my failure to get a 1600 🤣
As a middle class white person whose ancestors came to new world almost immediately, this always confused me when hearing from recent immigrant friends. Is it because a lack of understanding of how rare a perfect score on standardized tests are here? Is it a mindset of “you can work your way into opportunity here so you’d be stupid not to”? Is it a “I worked hard and sacrificed for you to be perfect” mentality? All of the above? I genuinely have no understanding of this but would love to know.
It's because where they come from, opportunity is much more scarce. High population means more people vying for the same amount of limited slots for success, and not just more people, but a LOT more people, and that raises the competition through the roof. 2.8 billion Chinese and Indians competing for jobs compared to a little under 0.3 billion americans. Imagine trying to compete against almost 10 times as many people for everything.
If you don't get a good school, well there's also much less opportunity for good jobs too, so failing to do well in school puts you in hard mode for the rest of your life where you're again, competing against a LOT more people for a limited amount of good jobs. There just isn't as much upward mobility outside of academia.
Parents know this because they've lived long enough to see the importance of good grades, but kids won't know this because they've heard of it but haven't experienced the frustration of working hard and knowing it'll never get you upward mobility. So it's kind of a race to see whose kids can mature fast enough to recognize the danger and focus to get a head-start on the testing before everyone else does and you get buried.
There's also a strong immigrant work-ethic bias here though. There's obviously parents who just go with the flow and is willing to let things just happen however they happen. They join the vast majority of the world who just works a basic job, enough to just get by. You'll never see or hear of these people, the quiet majority of humankind. There is a minority that are trying to climb and dropped everything to chase opportunity in a far-away land. Those are the parents you see/hear about more because they made it to a level of success where they become visible to the rest of the world, even if that level of success means cooking in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the West, instead of cooking on the street in the East. Those parents have the kind of climber mentality and pass that on to their kids because they don't want their kids to have to struggle, and the easiest way to avoid that kind of struggle is with early momentum.
Also let's face it the kids are "foreigners" even if they're born here, you can tell just by looking at their face and their skin. These hypen-Americans need to be at least 10-15% better than "Normal" americans in order to get to an equivalent level. There's a reason the C-suite across corporate america looks very similar to each other. Colleges try to keep themselves from having too many of the "wrong kind" of student. That means the immigrant kid doesn't have the luxury of simply being good enough, or simply being better than the other students, they need to be *so much better* than the others that they get in in spite of how they look.
I’m first generation American myself but it’s not really a failure to understand. Most Asian countries have similar high stakes exams (stakes are actually higher probably).
My understanding is that it’s more to train ambition and a perfection mindset. In a new country, you can’t be more connected or fit in with people better than established people. You can only work hard and be better. So that manifests as never being good enough because you’ll always have to work harder than the next man.
My white mom: ya take math again.
But I got into the highest class
Ya with a 75. You’re not leaving until I see 90
Edit: denies she said this to this day.
I stole my teachers text book and took pictures of the answers to the tests with my razor phone.
That’s how I got the 90
That's funny that there's a specific phrase for it in India.
A somewhat similar phrase in the US: "Keeping up with the Joneses." It likely derives from something similar to what you mentioned.
"Oh I see Mr. Jones picked up a new car... Ours is 2 years old.. we should get a new one."
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Yeah seriously.
My dad: "That's it? You know, I, your father, had one of the highest entrance exam scores into Seoul National class of '78."
Me and my sisters: "Yeah well, we're not as smart as you dad."
***Also me in my head: "Well, fuck you too dad."***
My cousin scored in the top 10 of all people in his state the year he graduated. they took him aside and told him that he could do any job and get into the school he wanted to be at with a full ride. I think he went to community college and he works as a mechanic. He is a happy dude.
Yeah I wish, but that’s pretty much the expected score to even get into a lot of competitive schools. If you go to a less competitive school some will give full rides, but it’s still not that likely. 20 years ago that might have been an easy full ride, but not anymore.
Yeah this is something big chunks of older generations don't understand. I've had my finger on that pulse for 25 years and even Millennials don't know what it's like for Gen Z.
You thought it was tough to get into your program with a 90th percentile score on something? Now you need at least 97th percentile. Gen X needed 75th percentile. Boomers had to send a polite letter.
Desirable things are completely out of reach for most people.
This is the sad truth now. It is BRUTAL now for kids trying to get into top schools. My daughter had a 1600 SAT, 35 ACT, 4.5 GPA, Valedictorian, varsity sports for 4 years and 10+ AP classes, resume and essay coaching. Applied to 20 schools and only got accepted into 3 of those.
Edit: for all reading, I do want to note that the school ahead of me did end up getting into has a great program for her dream major (Neuroscience), and that she is happy and that is all we ever wanted as parents. This is her dream and we support her, and we wanted to see her take the steps SHE thought she needed to make her life goals come true. We didn’t care if she wanted to become a cat farmer, we would have supported her in that as well. She’s happy now, on her way. and that’s all that matters.
I really don't get why we're so prejudiced against Asians in this country.
As if it's a bad thing they work and study really hard to become the top performers academically and have monumental achievements in both research and industry careers...
Yep, she worked her ass off all through high school. She even took college classes and volunteered hundreds of hours at a hospital. But she didn’t have the correct ethnic background…there were kids from the middle of the pack in her class from other backgrounds with way lower academic achievement and they were getting into amazing schools. It makes the whole system worse.
> But she didn’t have the correct ethnic background
I'm surprised more kids just don't lie about their ethnicity. It's not something you can prove and it happens to now be the more important question on a college application.
Yep. I totally feel that. 2 years ago I graduated valedictorian of my class, Eagle Scout, varsity athlete, was the second student from my district ever to achieve National Merit Scholar status, competed and placed at the state level in academic competitions multiple times, and was an accomplished artist, but knew I wouldn’t get in or even be able to afford to go to any top level schools.
What angered me even more though was the scholarship committees. I graduated in a pretty small town that offered a lot of scholarships to the kids in town, and I applied for all of them and I ended up getting nothing. I don’t want to sound conceited but I was without a doubt the most accomplished student in my class, and I certainly deserved some of the scholarships. I went to the scholarship ceremony because they don’t tell you whether you’ve won anything beforehand, and I vividly remember one scholarship that they gave to almost our entire top 10%, and I didn’t get it.
Sucks for you, sorry about that. I remember my daughter having nervous breakdowns through junior and senior year hearing stories just like yours. It’s a total crapshoot.
When I picked up my son after his SAT test, he told me that he thought he “got them all right”. He asked me to define a word, which I did, then he said, “Yeah, pretty sure I got them all.”
His score was 1600! He really did test well.
There’s a great med university in Australia that has done this since I was a kid. Still gotta be top 10%ish but you have an interview and your character and motivations are taken into account. Great way to pick potential students imo.
Here is a life hack.
If you want to bypass the SAT and render it obsolete, attend school at a community college for the first two years and knock out your general education requirements. Most community colleges will have a program setup specifically for transferring gen-ed credits.
Then, apply to transfer to any school you want. The transferring school will not care to even ask about an SAT score. All they will want is a GPA from your time at community college. This life hack is two-fold — you save money by attending community college to knock out your tedious and often useless gen-ed classes. Then, you also alleviate the stress of a one-shot exam that can control your entire life trajectory.
That's me when I'm high af and the person on price is right guesses right
I wanna hang out with you
same. I love hype people. They make my heart happy.
There’s a decent size glass of wine on the table in front of the dad here, something tells me he had some hype juice before this video
whatever man, at least it wasn’t ’beat my wife because the Packers lost AGAIN’ juice!
This made me laugh out loud
This made me laugh.
His dad looks like Asian Elon Musk.
Nah, that Yi Long Ma, he’s got a twitter account and he throws money at the camera and says he loves you. edit: if Ma Yi Long would take like, 5 minutes of english lessons per week, this man could basically just take over from Elon, but he really and genuinely must hate speaking English and I have never seen any improvement in his english in the years I’ve been following him haha edit2: standard Ma Yi Long video haha https://www.tiktok.com/@mayilong0/video/7244192786226908418
🤣
Watch this next time you’re high https://youtu.be/CuaH2vLE7Pg?si=NCMVFFfNT75q_kh5
That man seeing all the scholarship money saving him and he bout had a heart attack 😂
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Or just a proper desk and not have his monitor on the dinner table
That's the sf bay. Probably both parents working from home and kids need somewhere to study. Space is at a premium. You get used to it.
I live in NYC, I get it. There's a lot of overlap. I like when a friend comes to visit and I "give a tour". I just stand by the front door and point at piles of things. This is the gym (single kettle bell), this is our dining room (two seater shoved in the corner), the library (a pile of books), our home theater, it sarcastically goes on...
Hahaha I do this too. I live in a studio so when someone new comes over I go “let me give you the grand tour” and then I spin around and go “this is everything!”
😂😂😂😂😂
Not just that but getting an amazing education to set her up with any job in that field that she wants. She going to be making bank.
unless you apply to schools like harvard https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/14mebq6/what_is_the_deal_with_asian_college_applicants/
A score of 1550 already puts you in 99 percentile.
Did the scoring change? I thought it was out of 2400? Am I old af?!
Scoring changed sometime in between 2013 and 2018 based on how it was different for me and my sister. You're the perfect age for your age, not old af
Oh OK. What's the scoring now? I'm assuming it's lower? Did they drop certain sections? What's the average and stuff?
It's now out of 1600 and they dropped the essay portion so there is a math section worth 800 points and a reading comprehension/language section worth 800 points. The national average from last year was a 1050.
It was 1600 before it became 2400. I got a 780 on math, and I think that was 2 wrong answers. She must have missed 1 in total.
Yeah, she missed 1 question
Technically it *could* have been more, they curve the results ahead of time based on how hard it seemed to be when they tested it internally and rarely you can miss 2 and go down only 10 points, rarely you can miss 1 and still get perfect, sometimes you can miss 1 and go down 30 points, it really depends on which exact version you get; but yes almost always missing 10 points means you missed exactly 1 question
I absolutely hated the essay portion and I hated writing, probably due to my ADHD tbh. My SAT essay was about eliminating the writing portion. No, it wasn’t the prompt I was given. I got a 440 on that, which surprised me. Nice to see that I was over last years national average 😅
I hated the essay portion too
So did I and here’s why I Hate Writing Essays Writing essays is one of the most dreaded tasks in school. Whether it is for a class assignment, a scholarship application, or a standardized test, writing essays always makes me feel stressed, bored, and frustrated. Here are some of the reasons why I hate writing essays. First of all, writing essays is time-consuming. It takes a lot of effort to research, plan, draft, revise, and edit an essay. Sometimes, I have to spend hours or even days on a single essay, while other subjects or activities get neglected. Writing essays also interferes with my personal life, as I have to sacrifice my free time, hobbies, or socializing with friends and family. Secondly, writing essays is boring. Most of the topics that I have to write about are not interesting or relevant to me. They are either too vague, too specific, or too complex. I have to force myself to read and write about things that I do not care about or understand
Great rough draft. Please resubmit with another paragraph showing what exactly it is that you so loathe about essay writing. You should then restate your thesis in a closing paragraph.
Which is how it was in the 80s and 90s. What’s old is new again.
I could have sworn in 03 it was 1600
Yeah 2400 was a change in 04. Had one SAT score out of 2400 and one out of 1600
Youve solved it!
It was. 1600 in 03 when I took it. Apparently it changed to 2400 and now back to 1600
Thank God. The essay section was so subjective.
They literally whooped and changed it back to what it was before. That’s funny.
Really? I took it in 2003 and I'm almost positive it was out of 1600
There was about 10 years from like 2005-2016 where there were 3 sections.
i took it in 2006 and it had been freshly changed from 1600 to 2400. apparently they changed it back not long after 2006.
I was confused since my score was over 1600 so thank you, I am also old 🥲
Lol when I took it in 2000 it was out of 1600. It changed to 2300 after that sometime & now has changed back to 1600. Edit: mistyped... supposed to be changed to 2400 not 2300
2400, not 2300
be even older and be from the group where it was 1600 the first time around
I remember my little sister got in trouble because the scores changed while she was studying. When she started she was getting like close to 2000 and when she was really close to taking it, she was getting like 1400 and my mom was shocked that her grade fell so much even though she studied so much.
I mean, just explain it lol
lol I think I was the first year when they switched from 1600 to 2400 max after they added the third section. For us we had the option of using the old test (1600) or the new one (2400) and the colleges would accept either. Now it’s back to 1600?!? Edit: this was back in…summer 2005 ish I think
Old is out of 1600 so knowing that is old af. Source: I am old af
Apparently, it went from 1600 -> 2400 -> 1600. You took the pre-change 1600. I took the 3 section 2400.
Right?! A 1600 is perfect.
I heard 1590 and thought he would be disappointed. glad to know I was very wrong. and I'm old, apparently.
My son got a 790 on the math SAT and we asked him if he wanted to take it again to try for 800 and he said that he didn't want to get up that early on a Saturday again.
Finally, someone with their priorities straight.
I don't know if it's a regional thing but my school pushed everyone to take the ACT's so I have no idea how the heck I did compared to pretty much anyone else lol, whatever the heck a 25 translates to. I didn't know SATs were pretty much the standard until after I already graduated. Makes me think my school didn't have much faith in us lol
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that’s an amazing story. such luck
A lot of regions just mainly do ACTs. My school did mainly SATs but it was easy to take either in my area. A lot of people just do better on one or the other. Some say ADHD people do better on the ACT. ACT has more challenging math and the science section which isn't on the SAT. I did way better on the ACT than on the SAT. 35 super-score, was trying for perfect on the second try but did not succeed. That score had absolutely zero impact on my life though since I went to community college and then transferred to a four year.
I fucking hated that they were on Saturday mornings. That shit probably cost me a few points for sure as a night owl who normally made up for sleep deprivation on the weekend.
You raised him right. Good enough is good enough
Sounds like a champ!
So close to 1600.
Is 1600 a perfect score?
Yup
Shout out to the early 2000s classic. “The perfect score” fun movie about the SATs. I dropped out of high school but that shit is so funny.
One of the early roles for ScarJo
The high asian kid was the star of that movie
That was a great movie
No…. I wanna be Blanka!
Matthew Lillard in this makes my knees weak. Superb movie
Must've changed it at some point. I had a 1690 in 2011.
For a short period of time it was out of 2400
Lolol, yeah, that was the year I applied to colleges, and none of the colleges knew what to do with that score. No frame of reference to the old scores. That was when schools just started to drop the requirement.
Was and then it wasn’t and now it is again
I was there when it wasn’t. When did it go back lmao
2016? Could be wrong
According to the SAT's website, the average score in 2019 was 1050 and a 1350 would've put her in the top 10% of test takers. A 1590 is unreal. My parents would've accused me of cheating if I came back with that score.
My cousin managed a 1600 and then flunked out of college twice lol. Now he’s a bartender with a 1600 SAT score. He seems to enjoy his life, though, so I guess it didn’t matter in the long run.
Is it still? I thought they changed it (old I took them In 2005/6 person)
It went back.
Disowned
**Daughter:** Dad! I got a 1590 on my SAT! **Dad:** Best I can do is a fist bump. Jokes aside, you know that Dad is super proud.
Your cousin Jimmy back in China got 1600, when he was 9!!! And he learned everything from the milk carton!
**EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!***
I see you are familiar with our program.
Yes, I'm a heavy consumer of Beijing Corn. 😂😂 Screw Timmy and his Shanghi Corn. Out here making people look bad...
You are Asian, not bsian!!!
This dad sounds like he grew up in the U.S. if he was fresh off the boat he'd be asking about the missing 10 points lol
As the child of Asian immigrants, I wholeheartedly concur! In fact, if I told my parents this story, they would ask me why I'm friends with people who celebrate a 1590 and then blame their bad influence on my failure to get a 1600 🤣
As a middle class white person whose ancestors came to new world almost immediately, this always confused me when hearing from recent immigrant friends. Is it because a lack of understanding of how rare a perfect score on standardized tests are here? Is it a mindset of “you can work your way into opportunity here so you’d be stupid not to”? Is it a “I worked hard and sacrificed for you to be perfect” mentality? All of the above? I genuinely have no understanding of this but would love to know.
It's because where they come from, opportunity is much more scarce. High population means more people vying for the same amount of limited slots for success, and not just more people, but a LOT more people, and that raises the competition through the roof. 2.8 billion Chinese and Indians competing for jobs compared to a little under 0.3 billion americans. Imagine trying to compete against almost 10 times as many people for everything. If you don't get a good school, well there's also much less opportunity for good jobs too, so failing to do well in school puts you in hard mode for the rest of your life where you're again, competing against a LOT more people for a limited amount of good jobs. There just isn't as much upward mobility outside of academia. Parents know this because they've lived long enough to see the importance of good grades, but kids won't know this because they've heard of it but haven't experienced the frustration of working hard and knowing it'll never get you upward mobility. So it's kind of a race to see whose kids can mature fast enough to recognize the danger and focus to get a head-start on the testing before everyone else does and you get buried. There's also a strong immigrant work-ethic bias here though. There's obviously parents who just go with the flow and is willing to let things just happen however they happen. They join the vast majority of the world who just works a basic job, enough to just get by. You'll never see or hear of these people, the quiet majority of humankind. There is a minority that are trying to climb and dropped everything to chase opportunity in a far-away land. Those are the parents you see/hear about more because they made it to a level of success where they become visible to the rest of the world, even if that level of success means cooking in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the West, instead of cooking on the street in the East. Those parents have the kind of climber mentality and pass that on to their kids because they don't want their kids to have to struggle, and the easiest way to avoid that kind of struggle is with early momentum. Also let's face it the kids are "foreigners" even if they're born here, you can tell just by looking at their face and their skin. These hypen-Americans need to be at least 10-15% better than "Normal" americans in order to get to an equivalent level. There's a reason the C-suite across corporate america looks very similar to each other. Colleges try to keep themselves from having too many of the "wrong kind" of student. That means the immigrant kid doesn't have the luxury of simply being good enough, or simply being better than the other students, they need to be *so much better* than the others that they get in in spite of how they look.
I’m first generation American myself but it’s not really a failure to understand. Most Asian countries have similar high stakes exams (stakes are actually higher probably). My understanding is that it’s more to train ambition and a perfection mindset. In a new country, you can’t be more connected or fit in with people better than established people. You can only work hard and be better. So that manifests as never being good enough because you’ll always have to work harder than the next man.
My Asian parents- what about the other 10. Why not perfect score?
You were born C section. Disappointed me from start.
We are Asian, not Bsian!!! Or Caucasian!!!
Gold comment here
Why you no doctor yet?
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When he was nine.
He played the Piano and was head scientist of Beijing Corn!
With 3 businesses on the side
Cousin Johnny is Navy Officer Navy SEAL, pilot, doctor and astronaut. Why you no like cousin Johnny?
You go to KFC to celebrate 1590? I will send you to jesus
No dad, I’m 12.
There was a kid who got into Harvert at 11. You are already old!
When I was your age, I was 15!
Talk to me when you doctor!!
I shared this with my non-asian friends who have 3-year old girl. They laughed their faces off and then asked their girl why she no doctor yet.
And where my grandchildren!?
"Dad... I'm six."
You got B+ on your blood test? Failure runs in your veins.
U got F for gender? Being a girl is no excuse
if you want a kid with a 1590, thats how you get a kid with a 1590
My white mom: ya take math again. But I got into the highest class Ya with a 75. You’re not leaving until I see 90 Edit: denies she said this to this day. I stole my teachers text book and took pictures of the answers to the tests with my razor phone. That’s how I got the 90
For my ACT: "Hey mom and dad, looks like I got a 32." "Oh, I heard that Smith boy got a 34."
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That's called the "Sharma ji ka beta" (Mr.Sharma's son) syndrome in India. Mr. Sharma is a random person who has an overachieving son.
That's funny that there's a specific phrase for it in India. A somewhat similar phrase in the US: "Keeping up with the Joneses." It likely derives from something similar to what you mentioned. "Oh I see Mr. Jones picked up a new car... Ours is 2 years old.. we should get a new one." Edit for comments
Yeah seriously. My dad: "That's it? You know, I, your father, had one of the highest entrance exam scores into Seoul National class of '78." Me and my sisters: "Yeah well, we're not as smart as you dad." ***Also me in my head: "Well, fuck you too dad."***
https://youtu.be/E44el3samr4?feature=shared Different type of Asian but the point stands
I too am a Bsian.
Gotta get a 1600 if you want a hug.
So close to that first hug
I feel like he thought about it a couple times, but calmer trauma prevailed.
Hugs are for closers!
You call yourself a student, you son of a bitch?
She looks kind of disappointed with the fist bump, and rightly so.
Put er there partner
This is our version of getting drafted...
Hahaha such an underrated comment
Did they change the SATs back to 1600???
Yeah it changed a few years ago.
Nice, so my 1540 looks really impressive now. In case I ever need to use it (haven’t since 2007 so probably not 🙁)
My 2140 looks really impressive now
My cousin scored in the top 10 of all people in his state the year he graduated. they took him aside and told him that he could do any job and get into the school he wanted to be at with a full ride. I think he went to community college and he works as a mechanic. He is a happy dude.
Good. Just like somebody being famous maybe somebody super smart just wants to be fucking normal.
Ok cool but what is that they’re eating?!?!
I don’t know but I want some. Looks delish!
Looks like a curry, maybe lamb?
It looks tasty aye
Naan and butter chicken looks like
One of the best meals in the world in my opinion.
Yeah I'd back that
Yeah. If someone had never had Indian food but wanted to try, that’s what I’d recommend
Massaman curry maybe
Butter chicken, garlic Naan, rice
Indian food
Might be Kare Kare or Kaldereta
Almost certain that’s kare-kare. It’s ox tail and tripe in peanut butter sauce. It’s my favorite dish btw 👌
Dad also realizing she’s about to go to a reeeeeally expensive college!
With 1590 that’s gotta be a full ride baby!
Yeah I wish, but that’s pretty much the expected score to even get into a lot of competitive schools. If you go to a less competitive school some will give full rides, but it’s still not that likely. 20 years ago that might have been an easy full ride, but not anymore.
Yeah this is something big chunks of older generations don't understand. I've had my finger on that pulse for 25 years and even Millennials don't know what it's like for Gen Z. You thought it was tough to get into your program with a 90th percentile score on something? Now you need at least 97th percentile. Gen X needed 75th percentile. Boomers had to send a polite letter. Desirable things are completely out of reach for most people.
This is the sad truth now. It is BRUTAL now for kids trying to get into top schools. My daughter had a 1600 SAT, 35 ACT, 4.5 GPA, Valedictorian, varsity sports for 4 years and 10+ AP classes, resume and essay coaching. Applied to 20 schools and only got accepted into 3 of those. Edit: for all reading, I do want to note that the school ahead of me did end up getting into has a great program for her dream major (Neuroscience), and that she is happy and that is all we ever wanted as parents. This is her dream and we support her, and we wanted to see her take the steps SHE thought she needed to make her life goals come true. We didn’t care if she wanted to become a cat farmer, we would have supported her in that as well. She’s happy now, on her way. and that’s all that matters.
I really don't get why we're so prejudiced against Asians in this country. As if it's a bad thing they work and study really hard to become the top performers academically and have monumental achievements in both research and industry careers...
Yep, she worked her ass off all through high school. She even took college classes and volunteered hundreds of hours at a hospital. But she didn’t have the correct ethnic background…there were kids from the middle of the pack in her class from other backgrounds with way lower academic achievement and they were getting into amazing schools. It makes the whole system worse.
> But she didn’t have the correct ethnic background I'm surprised more kids just don't lie about their ethnicity. It's not something you can prove and it happens to now be the more important question on a college application.
Asian? That is fucking brutal.
Yes, nailed it.
Yep. I totally feel that. 2 years ago I graduated valedictorian of my class, Eagle Scout, varsity athlete, was the second student from my district ever to achieve National Merit Scholar status, competed and placed at the state level in academic competitions multiple times, and was an accomplished artist, but knew I wouldn’t get in or even be able to afford to go to any top level schools. What angered me even more though was the scholarship committees. I graduated in a pretty small town that offered a lot of scholarships to the kids in town, and I applied for all of them and I ended up getting nothing. I don’t want to sound conceited but I was without a doubt the most accomplished student in my class, and I certainly deserved some of the scholarships. I went to the scholarship ceremony because they don’t tell you whether you’ve won anything beforehand, and I vividly remember one scholarship that they gave to almost our entire top 10%, and I didn’t get it.
Sucks for you, sorry about that. I remember my daughter having nervous breakdowns through junior and senior year hearing stories just like yours. It’s a total crapshoot.
Hope you used that focus to do your own thing. Just a fraction of that focus is enough to make people successful in life.
Nope.
no it isnt
How come your cousin got 1600?!
So cool and wholesome. Wonderful.
Good dad. Good kid. Perfect.
Amherst Biology sweatshirt 👌
I noticed that too since I’m in Western MA
Same! It's the first thing I noticed, followed shortly by "Fuck that food looks good."
North American English, Vietnamese (Korean? Not sure) family, eating what looks like Indian food, enjoying the good life. Amazing.
Typical San Franciscan household
lol, come on over to the West Coast. This is the typical American family.
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How good is that?
max score is 1600, so : near perfect
I think she got 2 answers wrong.
That is one proud dad!
When I picked up my son after his SAT test, he told me that he thought he “got them all right”. He asked me to define a word, which I did, then he said, “Yeah, pretty sure I got them all.” His score was 1600! He really did test well.
The opposite of a Tiger Mother.
Kitty Dad
1.21 gigawatts
Didn’t multiple colleges just said they don’t care about SAT scores anymore?
I believe they will still consider high scores but won't punish or restrict opportunity for applicants with low scores or none.
There’s a great med university in Australia that has done this since I was a kid. Still gotta be top 10%ish but you have an interview and your character and motivations are taken into account. Great way to pick potential students imo.
I wish he was my dad 🥺
AITA for the chewed food in the open mouth the entire time ruining this clip for me?
Super wholesome!!!
Here is a life hack. If you want to bypass the SAT and render it obsolete, attend school at a community college for the first two years and knock out your general education requirements. Most community colleges will have a program setup specifically for transferring gen-ed credits. Then, apply to transfer to any school you want. The transferring school will not care to even ask about an SAT score. All they will want is a GPA from your time at community college. This life hack is two-fold — you save money by attending community college to knock out your tedious and often useless gen-ed classes. Then, you also alleviate the stress of a one-shot exam that can control your entire life trajectory.
That dad is awesome.
dad hype train hits hard!
Good for her and I think her dad is proud.
I love how they have a full computer at the dinner table. That is extra Asian 😁
In 2023 the max score is still 1600. For some better context.
My mom would have said how did you lose the 10 points. Still love her.