Hello, I'm a rising senior preparing to apply to college. We've decided to tour four schools this summer that are in California (since we live in California), Harvey Mudd, Caltech, UC Berkeley, and Stanford. I suggested the first 3 but my mother insisted on the fourth even though I have no desire to apply to Stanford (I never particularly liked the school more than any others and with their acceptance rate there's really no point). To give you an idea of my parents' attitudes toward college, here are some things they have done:
When my older sister went to community college, anytime someone would ask where she was going to college they would lie and say she was going to UCLA because it's more prestigious and well-known. When I asked them why they do it they said it was because they "forgot" the name of her actual school (lucky for them my sister got into UCLA as a transfer and will be attending in the fall so they are overjoyed that they don't have to lie anymore).
When I decided to first approach them about college in spring of junior year (I had been afraid before then), my father came up with a list of colleges for me and said I have to go to one on this list. He also texted the list to my mom. This list consisted of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT.
My mother keeps saying that she might be "too tired" to go on the tour of Harvey Mudd and Caltech even though it is weeks away and doing other things to suggest that she doesn't want to go. This is because my mother hadn't heard of either Harvey Mudd or Caltech before I suggested that we tour them and therefore doesn't think they are prestigious.
Since my mom insisted that we tour Stanford I suggested that we also tour UC Berkeley while we're at it . At first she was very reluctant and said it's probably like all the other UCs (she's been to UCSD). In order to persuade her, I did something that I really didn't want to do, pulled up the
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