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> Scholarships are easily obtained with a good ACT or SAT score. For the children of people that read Hacker News, I could see that. For normal American kids?
by riskable 6y ago
> Scholarships are easily obtained with a good ACT or SAT score.
For the children of people that read Hacker News, I could see that. For normal American kids? No way. Not even close.
The average american kid is not going to be able to get an SAT or ACT score good enough to get a scholarship. It's just not going to happen. You're vastly overestimating how smart and committed they are.
How much effort do you expect a kid to put into something that has no immediate benefit and no guarantee it'll ever pay off? To get to that level of delayed gratification requires a very special sort of upbringing.
- RickJWagner 6y agoYou raise an excellent point. My kids (and others like them) are being raised in a 2-parent household. We encourage the kids to study, and help them where needed. It's a form of privilege, but I don't feel guilty about it. We take part in programs that help other kids outside the family (including after-school homework help for ELS kids). IMHO, we all should become 'privilege factories', helping first our own kids and then other kids. It advances quality of life for everyone involved.