User blog comment:Raised By Wolves/Character Analysis – Courtney/@comment-22317052-20170107085846/@comment-5231983-20170107185342

You know, I think it just might be a mix of both. It may have been imposed by her parents from an early age, but perhaps along the way it did get instilled into Courtney's personality. That tends to happen, children's personalities are heavily affected by how their parents raise them. And they seem to have gone to an extreme with Courtney, since she still is very rebellious (love for bad boys, for example). Either way it's definitely food for thought, but the way I interpret it is that her parents did impose it, but there's a part of her that wants to pursue these high-ranking goals as well.