Parental Brag: Dean’s List Edition

[jon-nyc]

The boy got a 5 on his AP World History exam.

[LuFins Dad]

Fantastic! Cheers!

[Axtremus]

Congratulations!

[jon-nyc]

Last week he had a jazz concert on Tuesday and a classical concert on Thursday.

[jon-nyc]

The boy got his SAT score back today.

First time taking it, he got a 1480. Perfectly balanced 740/740.

He’s talking about taking it again hoping to break 1500.

Schools these days (most anyway) accept ‘super scoring’ where they’ll take your best verbal and best math across multiple tries.

[89th]

Wow that's incredible. I took mine once, I think it was a 1200? I also remember learning later you could take it multiple times and pick your best verbal or math. My parents were (are) great, very loving, smart, but man they didn't really teach anything about financial literacy or exam competitiveness the way I'm at least aware about it for my kids.

[Horace]

I never got a piece of advice from my parents that I considered usable. Not even in retrospect. But I saw how they loved each other and they loved me, that was probably the best thing.

[Horace]

Boy-NYC's scores topped mine, but we share the even distribution between verbal and math.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said:

I never got a piece of advice from my parents that I considered usable.

The only career advice my dad ever gave me was not to work in retail. The fact that he so rarely gave advice meant that it is something I've followed religiously.

[jon-nyc]

My parents were pretty unsavvy about what it meant to get into a competitive school. They didn’t even look over my admission essays though I probably didn’t want them to and they would have had I asked.

The boy beat my composite score too though I edged him out him in math. 790/630=1420.

[jon-nyc]

My dad often stressed the importance of doing something you like and defined success as being good at something that is important to you and will support a family. He would tell me the most successful person he knew growing up was a bricklayer.

Much of the rest of the advice was dated. Looking for a company with a pension, for example. The importance of getting my engineering license. Etc.

[jon-nyc]

Speaking of dated advice I see his mom trying to steer him into being the ideal of success from the standpoint of a Jewish mother circa 1985. I self-consciously try to avoid that but am surely blind to my own shortcomings in that regard.