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发帖数: 6339 | 1 Of the roughly 40,000 Chinese students applying to universities in the
United States last year, around 200 were accepted into Ivy League schools.
As a Beijing-based consultant puts it drily: “Harvard only accepts seven or
eight Chinese students a year, and one of them is bound to be the offspring
of a tycoon or a leader.”
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American admissions officers say they are now inundated with videos, photo
albums and even hardback books from Chinese applicants trying to impress
them with their exploits and expeditions. A Beijing school official told me
about a boy from north-eastern China whose father flew him in a private
plane to Tibet – for just a day – to make a video of him aiding poor
minorities. Last year, one of my friends in Beijing tutored a girl whose
full-time academic co-ordinator helped her score a trifecta: directing a
feature film; volunteering in an earthquake-hit village; and orchestrating,
via mobile phone, a “flash mob” for malaria awareness.
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-long-march-from-china-to-the-ivies
AUDREY RENEAU - MARCH 20TH 2016
A wonderfully written and engaging piece. One comment would be that although
it is easier for British universities in general, Oxbridge has quite a
different admissions process involving personal essays, tests, interviews
etc. Additionally, the figures regarding MIT stated that "9.7% of domestic
applicants in 2015" whilst "a mere 3% of international applicants". Does
this refer to Chinese-American students? It seems awfully low to be
depicting domestic applicants in general.
ELIN - MARCH 18TH 2016
Getting into an elite school is a privilege. Some may consider the greatest
challenge is about how to "get in", yet the hardest part is about how we are
going to make a difference as we "get out". Today, the young generation
across the world are facing an increasingly divided education system that is
leading to a divided society. The aspiration is that together - especially
with those who have had the privilege of receiving higher education - we can
change the status quo and turn this into an undivided world. |
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