Many of the parents who put insane pressure on their kids to succeed academically do so because they can't afford schools like NYU- they have to get into more competitive schools that offer more financial aid or lower tuitions.
What a ridiculously tangential thing to say without a shred of evidence.
Do you have any insight into their financial circumstances? While NYU does indeed have relatively stingy financial aid, there are plenty of students who receive lots of financial aid. (Heck, I got a full ride. If you assumed that my family was rich because I went to NYU you would be dead wrong.)
You have literally no insight into their financial circumstances and should not be lobbing such insinuations around.
20% of NYU students receive Pell grants. Assuming all NYU students are wealthy is like assuming all Americans are white.
I don't doubt many lower income families pressure kids to get merit scholarships, but it's not true that higher income families don't pressure kids as much.
In fact, I'd argue (anecdotally also!) that the American upper middle class has the most pressured kids. It's not always to say that "my kid goes to Harvard" but rather it's some strange attitude that parents have one they reach a "not wealthy enough to not work, not poor enough to get state financial aid" stage.
Not to mention that NYU spends literally hundreds of millions of dollars on financial aid every year. Hardly "almost no financial aid."
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