<p>hello everyone!
I have got a confusion, and would you guys please help me?
I have come here from china a few months ago, as a junior. I brought a transcript with the grade i earnd in china.
My conselor here transfered my former grades to my high school record here, and since the only bad grades before i came was Chinese ancient literature(D+), both semesters, so they transfered two Ds as Chinese-one grade here, and it do hurt my GPA.
but actually i think my D is much stronger than an A+ in the future AP chinese course.
So, how much time will a college admission officer read the transcript? will they just glampse and notice my foreign language grade---a D?</p>
<p>I don't know....my guess is that you should send an explanation on the situation. A lot of admission officers just aren't aware of the GREAT difference between educations from different countries. But if you got A's in every other subject here, that may help a lot.</p>
<p>I know...there's a GIGANTIC difference between the level of difficulty of classes in China and here in the U.S. Seriously, I approve neither of the two educational systems. The regular classes here are ridiculously easy. AP and Honors vary from school to school. In China, the competition to get into <em>any</em> college is just cutthroat. I have the brightest friends who didn't shine on their matriculation exam, therefore only got into the second-tier.</p>
<p>I still don't understand how you could not ace Chinese Ancient Literature! THAT'S ONE CLASS I'D DIE TO TAKE!!!! I LOVE the ancient history of China. </p>
<p>Since you're Chinese, an A+ in the future AP Chinese course won't look that impressive.</p>
<p>the ancient literature is extremely hard!!
no one in the country could get more than 130/150, while many got 150/150 on science tests.
for example, every test we learn, are like in foreign language, the same words but 80% of them have different meanings from the current meanings, the way they write, no puntuation, and any words in the literature which is still used at now will not be on the test, it's really as hard as a foreign language if not more.
and the most dire thing, every test we learned must be memorized, not a single word could be change, commonly, in the test, they give you half of a randomly chosed sentence in a ancient article, and let you to fill out the other half.
Tough?
our schedule, mon-fri(7:30am-10:30pm) sat(8:00am-3:50pm) sun(7pm-10:30pm)
dreadful? dire? horrible? incredible? sickening? useless? abominable? odious?
malevalent?
i falanticaly choose all of them!</p>
<p>That's why I said I don't approve of the ed. system in China...</p>
<p>I took the verbal part of a sample matriculation test the summer of my Freshman year for pure pleasure and curiosity. Goodness I did better on that test than I did on my SAT I CReading.</p>
<p>Maybe you & your GC could write something on your college aps about the grade & the differences in the two systems. I know that the GC at my children's school does explain things in his recommendation letter to the colleges that he sends with the transcripts & letters from the other teachers. You also have an opportunity to explain in your college applications.
It's really best NOT to obsess about it. Maybe try to get to know the Chinese department at your new school & maybe you can be the teaching assistant there & your teacher at your new school can talk about how incredibly brilliant you are at Chinese & such an invaluable assistant, etc.</p>