During my junior year of high school, my AP United States history teacher showed us a video about 4 Chinese students that had to take a college placement test. This video was enlightening because I had just received my ACT scores back and I had done better than I had expected to do. I did not think about this video again until February of my senior year when I had a Chinese exchange student come and stay with me. Her American name was Tiffany and she was a sophomore at Jian Ping High School, an elite school in the city of Shanghai in the People’s Republic of China. Tiffany taught me a lot about diversity, Katherine W. Phillips said, “Even simply being exposed to diversity can change the way you think.” In other countries, the standardized
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This may be caused by the vast difference between the qualities of colleges within the country. There are only a two top tier colleges and then there are a handful of good colleges in china, if you are not accepted into one of the top tier colleges, there are a huge drop off to the next tier. If a student scores in the top percentile of the college entrance exam, they get an automatic offer from one of the top two schools in China. Where as in America there are a ton of fantastic colleges and there is little difference between tiers. Personally, I was never really worried about my standardized testing, I took the SAT twice and the ACT once. My preparation included buying the prep book online and taking practice tests. That was all I needed. Other people freaked out, they insisted on having multiple tutors. Depending on what subjects you are the strongest in determines what test to take. The ACT has a science …show more content…
By the time I went to China, I had heard back from all 12 schools that I had applied to, I had just been accepted to my last college two days before I left for Beijing, While I was in Beijing, my friends and I noticed a map of the United States on a wall with pins on it in various locations. We asked one of the teachers what the pins and corresponding numbers were for and she explained to us that each pin was a university or a college that a student from Beijing 101 had been accepted to. For an impressive school there was an unimpressive amount of pins on the map, this teacher continued to explain to us that Harvard University had only accepted 4 students from China in 2014. At Beijing 101, they had a program were a select group of students were in English only classes, you had to be accepted into this program and it was the most selective program at the school. These students would only apply to schools in the United States. While we were there was attended an English class that supported Phillip’s idea that “Simply adding social diversity to a group makes people believe that differences might exist among them and that belief makes people change their behavior “. We helped the students work on an assignment that was extremely difficult for everyone. The teacher has cut up pieces of an essay and we were to put the essay back together. Unfortunately, we were only able to do this by putting the pieces
This may be caused by the vast difference between the qualities of colleges within the country. There are only a two top tier colleges and then there are a handful of good colleges in china, if you are not accepted into one of the top tier colleges, there are a huge drop off to the next tier. If a student scores in the top percentile of the college entrance exam, they get an automatic offer from one of the top two schools in China. Where as in America there are a ton of fantastic colleges and there is little difference between tiers. Personally, I was never really worried about my standardized testing, I took the SAT twice and the ACT once. My preparation included buying the prep book online and taking practice tests. That was all I needed. Other people freaked out, they insisted on having multiple tutors. Depending on what subjects you are the strongest in determines what test to take. The ACT has a science …show more content…
By the time I went to China, I had heard back from all 12 schools that I had applied to, I had just been accepted to my last college two days before I left for Beijing, While I was in Beijing, my friends and I noticed a map of the United States on a wall with pins on it in various locations. We asked one of the teachers what the pins and corresponding numbers were for and she explained to us that each pin was a university or a college that a student from Beijing 101 had been accepted to. For an impressive school there was an unimpressive amount of pins on the map, this teacher continued to explain to us that Harvard University had only accepted 4 students from China in 2014. At Beijing 101, they had a program were a select group of students were in English only classes, you had to be accepted into this program and it was the most selective program at the school. These students would only apply to schools in the United States. While we were there was attended an English class that supported Phillip’s idea that “Simply adding social diversity to a group makes people believe that differences might exist among them and that belief makes people change their behavior “. We helped the students work on an assignment that was extremely difficult for everyone. The teacher has cut up pieces of an essay and we were to put the essay back together. Unfortunately, we were only able to do this by putting the pieces