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Similar experience(s): I went to the University of Washington, at which an extremely high percentage of the students were Chinese (I want to say between 30% an

by nflknfk 11y ago

Similar experience(s): I went to the University of Washington, at which an extremely high percentage of the students were Chinese (I want to say between 30% and 40%). Taiwan and the South China Sea are definite hotbutton issues. Once during an international relations lecture of about 200 people, the professor made the mistake of mentioning Taiwan which caused one of the Chinese students to stand up and begin talking very loudly (shouting?) at the professor for what must have been a good three minutes, informing him that Taiwan is not the real China. It was pretty painful to watch considering he was one of the most senior professors within that department, and very well versed on the subject. Then I also had a Chinese roommate freshman year and there were always oddities like "those people at Tiananmen had it coming." Lots of little things that added up over time.

seanmcdirmid 11y ago
UW has never had that high percentage of Chinese students; from the demographics report: http://www.washington.edu/omad/files/2015/02/2015-01-09-UW-State-of-Diversity.pdf http://www.washington.edu/omad/files/2015/02/2015-01-09-UW-S... So they (Asians, other) are at 21.5% in 2014/15. Note that international has its own separate slice, at 14.7%, that isn't broken down. So...that means all that 21.5% are American, possibly of Chinese descent, which is far away from Chinese nationals. UW is a commuter school, I think 75% of the students live at home even. So if you were living on campus, your view of the demographics would be a bit skewed. Incidentally, in 2013, UW admitted a class of 6,255, 687 of which were Chinese, roughly 10%, which still isn't shabby: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/10/14/uw-fall-2013-enrollment-largest-freshman-class-ever/ http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/10/14/uw-fall-2013-enrol...
- nflknfk 11y ago
  What many of them do, including my former roommate, is to move over here during their sophomore or junior years of high school so they can achieve resident status in the state of Washington and get cheap college tuition. So going by those numbers you found, the true percentage is probably between 25% and 30%.
  - seanmcdirmid 11y ago
    Something else is going on. Either they are on an F-1 visa, paying out-of-state rates, they are illegal (doubtful these days), or...they have green cards (or even have citizenship). You can't pay in-state tuition on a student visa. If they have green cards, they are technically immigrants (though still Chinese nationals, for sure), and are on the hook to pay taxes in the US on worldwide income. (other visas can get you resident status, but none are related to education, perhaps if they are really rich they could get investor visas...but then money would be the least of their problems).
marshray 11y ago
Yep. On another occasion I demonstrated knowledge of a lesser-known fact about the Taiwan dispute and this girl was really happy with me. :-)

by nflknfk 11y ago

seanmcdirmid 11y ago

UW has never had that high percentage of Chinese students; from the demographics report: http://www.washington.edu/omad/files/2015/02/2015-01-09-UW-State-of-Diversity.pdf http://www.washington.edu/omad/files/2015/02/2015-01-09-UW-S... So they (Asians, other) are at 21.5% in 2014/15. Note that international has its own separate slice, at 14.7%, that isn't broken down. So...that means all that 21.5% are American, possibly of Chinese descent, which is far away from Chinese nationals. UW is a commuter school, I think 75% of the students live at home even. So if you were living on campus, your view of the demographics would be a bit skewed. Incidentally, in 2013, UW admitted a class of 6,255, 687 of which were Chinese, roughly 10%, which still isn't shabby: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/10/14/uw-fall-2013-enrollment-largest-freshman-class-ever/ http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/10/14/uw-fall-2013-enrol...

nflknfk 11y ago
What many of them do, including my former roommate, is to move over here during their sophomore or junior years of high school so they can achieve resident status in the state of Washington and get cheap college tuition. So going by those numbers you found, the true percentage is probably between 25% and 30%.
- seanmcdirmid 11y ago
  Something else is going on. Either they are on an F-1 visa, paying out-of-state rates, they are illegal (doubtful these days), or...they have green cards (or even have citizenship). You can't pay in-state tuition on a student visa. If they have green cards, they are technically immigrants (though still Chinese nationals, for sure), and are on the hook to pay taxes in the US on worldwide income. (other visas can get you resident status, but none are related to education, perhaps if they are really rich they could get investor visas...but then money would be the least of their problems).

marshray 11y ago

Yep. On another occasion I demonstrated knowledge of a lesser-known fact about the Taiwan dispute and this girl was really happy with me. :-)