Week 2 Hexi Huang A03

I also read about how Asian Americans get into colleges and what influences them and guides them to that point. As a Chinese American, I can say that this account was fairly accurate. I made most of the decisions that led me to UC Davis, I am a 1.5 generation Chinese American and I like many others have aspirations for post-secondary education. I can’t exactly recall why exactly but definitely it was ingrained in me since I was a child by my parents and later by teachers and peers. Initially, I thought my path would be to graduate high school and the go to a community college and then transfer to a university but that changed mainly by my mother. Yes my mother had a large guiding hand in how path I would take but I always controlled the details, I guess you could say it was similar to starting a painting with a wide brush and I came in later to fill in the details. My mother always told me that my education was the most important thing at this point in my life and that was about it. I did study and prepared for tests out of my own volition, however, I didn’t necessarily  know why, I did extracurriculars not because that's what colleges wanted but because it was what I wanted, And the schools I applied to where only schools in California because I didn’t want to stay in my American hometown but I also didn’t want to go too far away. In the end, don’t know if I can say that I was the most important person in my college selection process or any one person for that matters, it was an amalgam of people and circumstance that led me to where I am.

Poon, O., & Byrd, A. (2013). Beyond Tiger Mom Anxiety: Ethnic, Gender and Generational Differences in Asian American College Access and Choices. Journal of College Admission, 22-31. Retrieved September 29, 2017.

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