Navya Naveli Nanda's Pic Goes Viral Again - Page 13

Originally posted by: RamSiyaRam

Well definitely Aryan didnt get into UCLA becoz of his excellent academic grades,😆. He got into becoz of his Papa's money. He may be majoring in liberal arts or film & theater or something. Its definitely not any of the pure sciences or mathematics field.

Navya comes across as a bohemian girl, and what is with the tag she was wearing😒, its too desperate to be of some kind of wanna be sexy image.🤢. Why do they want to ape the US Pop stars? they are different culture, instead be yourself.

Originally posted by: Justmoi

Oye,

Aryan, Navya and her brother have been away studying in London since they were kids, I think preteen or teen. They have lived their lives and their formative years in western culture. This is them being themselves. They are what is called third culture kids, exposed to two different cultures and forming a third culture taking what they want from both cultures they were exposed to. I can speak with some authority on this as it is my experience and I have heard what you have said @bold time and time again about me. Heavy Indian culture at home, hence the love for Indian movies and music but US culture is who I am because that is what I know and was exposed to mostly as I am from there.

Originally posted by: anonymous39

[quote]Mallika, I meant to say that these super rich kids have it so easy to enter into these top schools to graduate from. They really dont slog their way like other children do. They get away with mediocre grades. Forget high flying 85% or more. Getting 55% may be best score they get. Infact even kids of business mughals dont study they have a pretty fun life and get into best colleges in USA- Harvard or Princeton or Yale and so on. Sad but true. [/quote]

^^This 55% or whatever doesn't mean anything outside of India. Studying like crazy and memorizing to get some percentage doesn't have value outside India.

If they want to get into those American colleges, they would have to take the SAT and submit their grades from their high school classes. One measures aptitude and the other dedication and hard work.

There's also a third component of what else you're doing with your life. If you have great extracurriculars like doing volunteer work or inventing an app or running a successful blog or millions of other things... those things are also considered.

The rest of the world does not work like India.

Originally posted by: RamSiyaRam

Mallika, I completely agree with what u wrote esp in the end what we carve out for ourselves in life is most important. What I dont agree or am unconvinced is Aryan being a good student😆

Originally posted by: Justmoi

Oye,

Aryan, Navya and her brother have been away studying in London since they were kids, I think preteen or teen. They have lived their lives and their formative years in western culture. This is them being themselves. They are what is called third culture kids, exposed to two different cultures and forming a third culture taking what they want from both cultures they were exposed to. I can speak with some authority on this as it is my experience and I have heard what you have said @bold time and time again about me. Heavy Indian culture at home, hence the love for Indian movies and music but US culture is who I am because that is what I know and was exposed to mostly as I am from there.

Originally posted by: anonymous39

You can think whatever you want of course. I personally don't know about Aryan either. I think it's a little unfair to automatically assume he's a bad student though.

To be honest, life is unfair. His being rich means that he got a great education from great schools. Both the Ambani school he went to before and Sevenoaks later and now UCLA. Even if he got only average grades, he would still be much better off than than the random kid studying in the middle of nowhere India and getting 90%.

The quality of the schools and teachers and material matters way more than people think.