> I was not aware of the admissions difficulty being so high there compared to the Stanford/elite US universities China has a population of 1.4 billion. Peking

> I was not aware of the admissions difficulty being so high there compared to the Stanford/elite US universities China has a population of 1.4 billion. Peking University has 33k students and Tsinghua has 45k. Obviously this isn't a great comparison because lots of foreigners come to study in the US, but I think it does give a sense of scale.