<p>oh i see..</p>
<p>is there any interaction between mainstream chinese and racial minorities?
or are the cultural differences so vast that everyone just minds their own business?</p>
<p>most people get assimilated into the "mainstream mandarin" culture... basicly all of them become assimilated; all the ethnic groups and stuff, like their food, customs, way of dressing.... </p>
<p>for example the manchurians they all learned chinese and so did all the rest of the minority groups, people from other part of the world dont hear about them because they are basically "chinese"... the "Han minority but techniquely majority"</p>
<p>except tibet dont feel like speaking chinese so i guess thats y theres a big problem over there, but other than that, they all dressed in chinese clothe and stuff</p>
<p>hey... the chinese thread is 2nd in views and replies only to the indian thread (which is first for entire CC) on the international board</p>
<p>Well, I'm involved in a program promoting Shanghai dialect to resist the prevalence of Mandarin.</p>
<p>really? let's keep this up then....
maybe we could like use one post per sentence or something,hehe..
that'd **** everyone off for sure</p>
<p>Can you guys list which school(s):
1) you'd applied
2) accepted you
3) you finally chose
I am just being curious. </p>
<p>I start (note I am NOT in the class of 09):</p>
<p>1) Applied: Oberlin, WashU, Carnegie Mellon, Union, RPI, Case Western, Chicago, Brown.
2)Accepted: Oberlin, WashU, Carnegie Mellon, Union, RPI, Case Western
3)Wash U
P.S. Transferred from WashU to Northwestern after 1st year.</p>
<p>1) Applied: MIT, Upenn, Duke, Hopkins, Stanford, Cornell
2) Got into: Got in all of them
3) Will be attending: MIT</p>
<p>1) Applied: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Case Western, Cornell, Wellesley, WashU, NYU Stern, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Smith, University of Rochester, University of Miami (Ohio), American University, Colgate... dont remember the other insignificant ones</p>
<p>2) Accepted: Michigan State, UMich, Stern, Wellesley, Smith, Case, Cornell</p>
<p>3) Rejected: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton :( all the good ones, how sad</p>
<p>4) Never heard from: University of Miami (where's my $40!?), [University of Rochester, American University, Colgate] <--- free applications! what a joke, i didnt wanna waste $7 each to send my sat scores</p>
<p>5) Will be attending: wellesley</p>
<p>ps... if we were to post a word per line... that would be crazy with the 60second limit thing... which really bugs me!</p>
<p>manchu_princess--
you have your pr though right? sorry, don't remember if it's you or someone else...</p>
<p>wow manchu_princess congrats!!</p>
<p>stats?? :p</p>
<p>yy - yes I did just get my pr, which probably helped in some schools</p>
<p>neha - thanks, my stats are just like anyone else's, but it's really my essays, background, recs that got me in. PM me if you want.</p>
<p>Applied 7 national universities (all ranked upper 10th except Brandeis), 17 liberal arts colleges.
Got in three top 10 universities with full aid (family contribution 500 dollars) and three liberal arts colleges. Waitlisted by seven lacs, rejected by the rest unis and lacs.
I will come up with the school list later.</p>
<p>background infor: i met ppl with the gigantic ego on this disscussion board
don't take it to offense,big ego doesn't mean arrogance, it just mean i think you guys are different, unconventional, passionate, bright, anything positively relating to youth</p>
<p>a student from HF, i considered it one of the best high school in Guangzhou. i was doing the practice questions for new SAT (you know, so many women rights questions)one day when i suddenly dropped my pen and remembered an ancedoto. in Zhongkao, i was one of the top scorers to get into HF, but the creativity class rejected me because i am a GIRL. girls don't have much potential as guys in maths and science--that is the OFFICIAL answer from the school, so guys with lower grades got in..
i didn't even think about complaining but just go along with it...now i think back(even though i wouldn't want to be in C class) i feel ridiculus about why i didn't rebel against it</p>
<p>so what was China's 50s,60s doing when all the american are anxiously watching Brown vs education board, when Pleyce's place was popular, beats are spreading out from Columbia U ,or civil rights movement,ECR, and so on?
not talking about how sex and drugs are the dominating pop culture( and i am not a femisist, just using an example), but when did China finally free women, or free from any social prejudice?our great party had put great efforts changing the situation, saying: Chinese women are finally raised without burden. but did it really change in our mind? i never remember my grandma smiling upon me but she showered love on her only grandson; have you ever visited any orpanage in China? what is the pecentage of girl babies vs boy babies? every 1 boy was abandoned while 10 girls are abandoned---this is not only in the country sides or uneducated people, think about how high school teachers or maybe even yourselves think guys are more potential...</p>
<p>i always think the wave of going abroad in the generation of qianzhongshu, dengxiaoping ..are the greatest thing that ever happen to recent China. it is their ideas molded the current China. And i blieve we would be the next BEATS generation to challenge Chinese future. </p>
<p>i think about China all the time during my stay in TX, my heart aches when friends around me are talking about their childhood best movies American pumkin while i think about huluwa and he mao jing zhang.....maybe i had a too fun life and friends in Guangzhou, i just couldn't forget how much i love them, how much i love China; but at the same time, i am afraid of all the prejudices and by experiencing the challenging life here, there is no way that i am wiling to study for hard hours only to get into a campus with void air...the only thing i would be motivated enough to do is make life better for the people i love, my family, my friends, and my city</p>
<p>i understand that this board is defined to be confined to talk about applying colleges...but meeting so many bright people here, i just couldn't resist of talking about being the CN.beats.....plus after reading one passage of today's SAT test, i am overwhelmed and lost in cultural identification</p>
<p>btw, beats, if anybody is not familiar with, they are a groups of dropout students from Columbia University, who challenged the conventional ways of surban life. they are talented and loved to bluff and moan in night, Go, On the Road were published and recieved with ethusatic after a successful poem presentation</p>
<p>Sam Lee:
1) Applied: Oberlin, WashU, Carnegie Mellon, Union, RPI, Case Western, Chicago, Brown.
2)Accepted: Oberlin, WashU, Carnegie Mellon, Union, RPI, Case Western
3)Decision: Wash U
P.S. Transferred from WashU to Northwestern after 1st year.</p>
<p>Manchu_princess:
1) Applied: MIT, Upenn, Duke, Hopkins, Stanford, Cornell
2) Got into: Got in all of them
3) Will be attending: MIT</p>
<p>xokandykyssesox:
1) Applied: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Case Western, Cornell, Wellesley, WashU, NYU Stern, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Smith, University of Rochester, University of Miami (Ohio), American University, Colgate... dont remember the other insignificant ones
2) Accepted: Michigan State, UMich, Stern, Wellesley, Smith, Case, Cornell
3) Will be attending: wellesley</p>
<p>Let's keep this list going? :)</p>
<p>i'm a sophomore and i'm destined for some puny little community college. yes, i'm one of those dumb asians. dumb dumb dumb >;[</p>
<p>mangos, if you reply this thread, you will end up at a top tier school.</p>
<p>haha yes! no community-college-future student visits CC!</p>
<p>wow! it is so exciting to see sooo many chinese!
i will be going to cornell this fall, is anybody going there as welllll?</p>
<p>hey
yea, i think at least one other person from this thread is going to cornell...is it AlexLi? i think so...</p>
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<p>xokandykyssesox, I don't understand why you bash students who are going to community colleges. The whole purpose of higher education is to broaden one's view and maximize one's potential. Community colleges have a lot of merits that other forms of colleges cannot possibly match. Furthermore, education should never be the sole judgment of how great a person is. </p>
<p>mangosmmm, as long as you strive for what you want out of a higher education, you will get as much benefit out of it as everyone else. Wish you the best!</p>