Friday, September 21, 2012

Topic 4: Where Choices Lead


            To come to pacific American school is actually a choice completely made by my parents. When I was in the states during my freshman year, I told my mom that I want to go back to Ming Dao high school, which is a local school when all my friends are, she said yes. But then, she changed her mom by just one article on the newspaper, saying that how many students got in to the top 50s.  So then she decided to give it a try. I will consider it as a quite rational choice, because we actually did make out the pros and cons list in order to make the whole process more legit.
            The opportunity cost for me coming to this school would be I basically started all over again. I have to start out with a brand new environment and study with unfamiliar friends.  Of course, the opportunity benefit would be a better curriculum compare to my local school and indeed a better future in terms of academic performances. I would say the benefit is actully greater then the cost, because I can still contact my old friends even though we go to different schools but my future is like a one time thing. If I screw up then that’s its. Hence I would say coming to PAS is actually quite a rational choice and if I am the one making the decision I would probably do the same.

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