Why I chose to send my children to go to college in the United States

Why I chose to send my children to go to college in the United States. The decision to send my children to go to college in the United States originated from a class reunion on the 20th anniversary of my college graduation: The child is very good...

The child is very good. Since kindergarten, he has attended the best schools in the provincial capital: the provincial government kindergarten - the primary school attached to the Normal University - the Foreign Languages Middle School. The child is also very lucky. In the year he graduated from junior high school, the high schools affiliated to several universities in Shanghai were recruiting students nationwide. As the only student in the province, the child was admitted to the high school affiliated to Shanghai International Studies University (the high school affiliated to Shanghai International Studies University only admitted a class of 40 students). Moreover, the child's overall quality is also good: he passed level 8 in piano in elementary school, won a national award in a painting competition that I can't remember the name of, and is also good at basketball; one girl's family also likes boxing, and the musical instruments she knows include piano, guitar, and erhu, and she also played cucurbit flute for a while.

I remember that when my children first went to Shanghai in their first year of high school, it happened to be the 20th anniversary of my own graduation from college, and some enthusiastic classmates organized a party. Since graduation, my classmates have been scattered all over the world: less than ten of them are staying in China, and others are in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, etc. It is relatively easy to meet domestic classmates, but those who have gone abroad have almost never met each other after graduation.

took the children to this rare gathering. At this party, my teacher at that time (a very famous scientist and an old member of the academic department) said something that made me determined to send my children to study abroad:

The general idea of ​​what he said was: Today's colleges and universities are different from the era when we were in school. Teachers are unwilling to teach and children are unwilling to learn. Teachers are busy making money, while students are busy falling in love. (The original words are more straightforward and intense)

Originally, I brought my children to the party in the hope that they would apply to my alma mater in the future.

After this gathering, the child started to prepare for studying abroad: when he was a sophomore in high school, he took all the TOEFL/SAT exams. I remember that there were no test centers in mainland China for the SAT exam at that time, so he went to Hong Kong to take the SAT exam.

Before the college entrance examination, the child was successfully admitted to a good American university. After receiving the admission notice from an American university, I continued to take the domestic college entrance examination, achieved good results, and was admitted to a university in Shanghai.

The child has been well-trained in the United States for several years. In addition to successfully passing all school examinations, he also participated in many extra-school activities. What moved me the most during this period was: when there was no shortage of money, the child worked at Disney for a year. He had to go to school here, and he had to drive more than an hour and more than 100 kilometers after school to go to work at Disney.

The results proved that the educational direction specified by my teacher was correct: several of my children’s classmates in junior high school had already gone to college in China, but they were not willing to waste their time dating, playing games, and earning diplomas in China. They finally chose to give up most of their domestic credits (when applying to American universities, they did not recognize some domestic courses) and study abroad in the United States or other countries.

The child has experienced a lot of hardships in the United States for several years: including the difficulties faced by customs officers when he first set foot on American soil, the frightening forest fires in Los Angeles, etc.; he also witnessed the bohemian behavior of black students in school and even the ingestion of marijuana, and so on.

After my children graduated from college, they did not choose to go to graduate school immediately, but chose to work first. She worked for a well-known bank in the United States for a year, returned to China this summer, and now works in the Shanghai branch of an American company.

Children hope to have a thorough understanding of society and then decide in what professional direction they should continue their studies.

I feel that the child is completely mature. I also feel that I am on the right track in raising my children.