Got a bit annoyed at her — well, more at her mother, to be precise.
She's past the typical student age but is considering going to university (partly due to visa reasons), so the question is where — and her mother keeps going on about the University of Tokyo, the University of Tokyo, did you see this opening at the University of Tokyo.
I don't actually know her high school grades, and to be honest, given that she's female and various other factors, there's an outside chance she could get in — but that's only something I can say because I know some of the circumstances. The point is, someone who knows nothing about Japan firsthand, who knows nothing about Japanese universities, casually assuming they can walk into Japan's or Asia's top institution without a second thought — that's just wrong. (Isn't that a lack of social awareness and risk management? In other words, isn't that just dumb?) That "taking it lightly" quality irritates me — taking Japan lightly, taking Japanese people lightly, taking me lightly. That kind of lowbrow attitude. Especially doing that in front of me (one of the actual stakeholders) — the nerve.
In the end, it boils down to "peak helicopter parenting," and I was silently holding my head in my hands.
As for the girl herself, who knows what she was actually thinking. Maybe she was somewhat calmly thinking, don't make such a fuss, it's probably impossible anyway. This was a profiling of the parent, not the daughter.