Yesterday, Sister Wei went online, and it was time to find out that "Harvard Girl Liu Yiting" was on the hot search again... I brought my mind back to when I was a child. I feel that when Sister Wei was young, every parent read this book about a girl in a small town who went to Harvard, and she would imitate the methods of the parents in it to train the baby, which was simply a "nightmare" for every child growing up in the millennium
But this time the hot search of "Harvard Girl" has nothing to do with success, but she returned to tell her recent situation. Originally, everyone was looking forward to making great achievements and was ready to come back to serve the country, but she was an ordinary middle class in the United States... I can't help but sigh.
But Sister Wei still thinks that as a girl from an ordinary family, she finally settled in the United States and achieved a class jump, which is actually a great strength.
But what makes this article more thought-provoking is: Is "Chicken Baby" a road to success or a scam for ordinary families?
When reading her autobiography when she was a child, Sister Wei still remembers that her parents made a detailed plan for her, accurate to what age she could climb... years to learn to walk, how old to speak, how old to know how many digits arithmetic, etc...
To this day, there are still people who regard this method as a model of rigorous, rational and efficient execution...
I still remember the description in the book that Liu Yiting's mother asked her to knead ice with her bare hands to exercise her willpower, and as a result, children across the country followed suit in that era, as if as long as the child can withstand this "ice pinch test" from an early age, he will be able to enter Harvard University like Liu Yiting when he grows up. Later I saw that the ice cubes were all PTSD...
Sister Wei wants to say that Liu Yiting's study abroad application experience is not actually replicable, but it is just a special product of the special era at that time, when studying abroad was still a rarity.
Liu Yiting had average grades in Chengdu Foreign Chinese School when she was in high school, and she did not have an application advantage by our current standards. Later, he participated in a summer camp to the United States and lived in the home of a congressman, where he received critical support. At that time, the school was acquired by Diaverum Education, and due to the need to set up a typical case, choosing Harvard became the best path. In 1999, due to the relatively low number of mainland students applying to universities in the United States, Diaverum Education invested a lot of resources to help Liu Yiting apply, cleverly packaging her as an applicant with unusual qualities and abilities. With the support of U.S. congressmen and Delve, Liu Yiting successfully entered Harvard.
This chance is a bit like the plot of Wendi Deng and Murdoch encountering. Liu Yiting's mother is good at strategy and is fully prepared to deal with the "noble" Larry. In the end, the interviewer sent by Harvard was also recommended by Larry, highlighting the wonderful experience of "sending Buddha to the West". However, Liu Yiting's successful era is a thing of the past. The inspiration of the "Harvard Girl" book has led to more and more families choosing to study abroad, and now the competition for applying to Ivy League schools has become extremely fierce, and a successful application must be determined by comprehensive quality in many aspects.
There is nothing wrong with the "chicken baby" itself, but each baby needs to be taught according to their aptitude has a different "chicken" method... Sister Wei suggested that parents still need to communicate with their children to understand what their children want to do in the future, and then give full support and appropriate expectations.
As for whether the chicken baby is the road to success, this is, of course, a matter of opinion... Some people may say a pity when they see that Liu Yiting, a Harvard girl, is now "out of the crowd". But some netizens will say something when they see her now working in an ordinary company:
Finally, Sister Wei wants to say that even though we can't learn from Liu Yiting's mother and daughter's "chicken baby" method, the spirit of implementing the goal after setting a goal is still worth learning from every parent and student!
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