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> Let's not pretend Chinese students are turned away because they lack individuality. They absolutely are. As someone who has been involved in this process, t
by inimino 10y ago
> Let's not pretend Chinese students are turned away because they lack individuality.
They absolutely are.
As someone who has been involved in this process, this is without question the biggest challenge for Chinese students to apply to top schools. They simply do not have the individuality and intellectual curiosity that US universities want. The reason is because having those qualities is totally incompatible with high achievement in the Chinese educational system up through high school. The high scoring Chinese students were either never interested in critical thought or they completely repressed that tendency at an early age.
- wolfgke 10y ago> The high scoring Chinese students were either never interested in critical thought What you call "critical thought" is what I would rather call "'critical' thought in what is the currently an opportune fashion". I know lots of people who have critical thoughts, but not in the sense of what admission panels like to see as "critical thought".
- inimino 10y agoI mean they can't challenge an idea that is given, because they have no practice doing it. The students that challenge authority, even privately, don't have an easy time in that system.