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                <p>Now that her eldest cub is bound for the Ivy League, the Tiger Mom has been tamed.</p>
                <p> On April 2, Chua revealed on her Facebook page that her daughter Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld had earned a spot at Harvard. And while she was quick to praise her strict parenting regime of no sleepovers and no television when defending her controversial book <i>Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother</i> in January, Chua seems to have retracted her claws since then. "I'm afraid I can't take any credit," Chua wrote in an e-mail to the <i><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/httpnewsfeedtimecom20110406didamychuasdaughterreallyneedatigermomtogetintoharvardxidrssfullnationyahoo/40978021/SIG=12gqkgv3q/*http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1327779&amp;srvc=rss" target="_blank">Boston Herald</a></i>. "I don't think my parenting had anything to do with it - I think Sophia did it 100% herself." <span class="see"><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/httpnewsfeedtimecom20110406didamychuasdaughterreallyneedatigermomtogetintoharvardxidrssfullnationyahoo/40978021/SIG=120f7sd59/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2043313,00.html" target="_blank">(See "Tiger Moms: Is Tough Parenting Really the Answer?")</a></span></p>
                <p> And that was no easy feat. Harvard accepted a record low of 6.2% of applicants this year - selected from a pool of 35,000 students.</p>
                <p> But, as it turns out, Sophia probably would have done well in the college admissions game even without her pushy mother. She's demonstrated that she has more than a few talents of her own. A piano prodigy, she debuted at Carnegie Hall at 14. And in a letter defending her mother published in the <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/httpnewsfeedtimecom20110406didamychuasdaughterreallyneedatigermomtogetintoharvardxidrssfullnationyahoo/40978021/SIG=12t168obo/*http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/why_love_my_strict_chinese_mom_uUvfmLcA5eteY0u2KXt7hM" target="_blank"><i>New York Post</i></a>, she proved she has writing chops, too. "Having you as a mother was no tea party," she wrote. "There were some play dates I wish I'd gone to and some piano camps I wish I'd skipped. But now that I'm 18 and about to leave the tiger den, I'm glad you and Daddy raised me the way you did." <span class="see"><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/httpnewsfeedtimecom20110406didamychuasdaughterreallyneedatigermomtogetintoharvardxidrssfullnationyahoo/40978021/SIG=120f7sd59/*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2043313,00.html" target="_blank">(See TIME's cover story on tiger moms.)</a></span></p>
                <p> Sophia's natural talent aside, Chua did bequeath her with one gift most pushy mothers can only dream of: alumni status. Chua holds two degrees from Harvard - a B.A. and, like her husband, a J.D.</p>
                <p> <span class="see"><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/httpnewsfeedtimecom20110406didamychuasdaughterreallyneedatigermomtogetintoharvardxidrssfullnationyahoo/40978021/SIG=12mrjs7vq/*http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/19/tiger-mothers-roar-sparks-superior-web-parodies/" target="_blank">Read about the 'superior' Amy Chua web parodies.</a></span></p>
                <p> <span class="see"><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/httpnewsfeedtimecom20110406didamychuasdaughterreallyneedatigermomtogetintoharvardxidrssfullnationyahoo/40978021/SIG=12s3l5q47/*http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058044_2060338_2060004,00.html" target="_blank">See Amy Chua in the 2011 TIME 100 poll.</a></span></p>
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