<p>My teachers in China were willing too change every single score into 100 when i actually averaged in about 80. Chinese teachers are easily bribed…</p>
<p>I think the problem is not the Chinese high school, but the differences between Chinese and American education systems. In China, there are two kinds of high schools, one is for students who want to study aboard, another is for students who want to enter Chinese colleges. For the former, I think those high schools adhere to the rules since they follow the America system from grade 10. For the latter, a few students who previously choose GaoKao ( like SAT, but only one chance and the only judgment for colleges) change their mind in Grade 11 or 12 and want to study aboard. Their school never hear of GPA and never care about since what they need is ONLY the results of GaoKao. Take an example of my school, in order to inspire students to keep studying hard, the exams in my school are hard beyond imagination: once in a Chemistry exam, half of my classmates failed to pass ( lower than 60) and the average grade of the whole Grade 12 students( 780) was lower than 60. The grades means nothing to these schools and these GaoKao students. But what about those students who later plan to go aboard, whose school never care about GPAs and whose exams are hard beyond imagination? That’s the problem.</p>
<p>What’s more, since many US universities know the differences, Chinese transcripts often play a weak role in AOs’ decisions. What matters is SAT, other after-school activities and so on.</p>
<p>The key point is that the US AOs give equal chances to high school students, not those biased comments on Chinese education system and students. Flaws in Chinese system do exist, but people cannot view everything in China from a standard for a country which has developed over 200 years. Remember, China has only started its modern development for about 60 years. Since things get better, mocking comments are ridiculous themselves.</p>
<p>few high schools in China acquired the trust towards their transcripts by years. but other schools are not that believable</p>
<p>Not accurate at all</p>
<p>US academic institutions that enroll a large number of Chinese students have years of data on the students’ application materials including transcript, test scores, student academic and social performance at their institutions and other information, so it wouldn’t be hard for them to produce an accurate report upon which the institutions may base in their enrollment of Chinese students. I think the institutions and their admission officers know what they do, but still i hope they can do more to improve screening; benefits of making such endeavor are obvious: better students and fairness and accountability for so many Chinese applicants.</p>
<p>Chinese high school push their students to study harder and harder by decreasing their GPA. In most cases, a student getting a score of 80 is the top one in the school.</p>
<p>For most schools in China, transcripts are accurate now. The only thing they can do is to be accurate otherwise all the students will ask for raising up their grades.</p>
<p>Some years ago, studying abroad was special in China. Some teachers did help their students in order to make their application easier, because only 1-2 students went to abroad every year.</p>
<p>I am a Chinese and I have to say the curriculum in China is highly competitive and challenging. For example, when the math test is relatively more difficult than it usually is, it’s not uncommon to see a phenomenon high school has only few students have a grade higher than 70 points(100 point is full). So when applying to colleges in US, some Chinese students do change their grades and GPA to demonstrate their academic capacities are more than the written grades say.</p>
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<p>Generally because school is so difficult students get poor grades, and those grades need to be converted to the American notion according to scale. Good intention, bad application, because that’s where people can cheat on. </p>
<p>But worry not, because first: it’s not official cheating, the schools cannot care less for students who does not follow the Gaokao norm, and second: US Universities know it and never take it seriously LOL</p>
<p>I’m a student that just transferred from China to the US and I have to say that there are a lot of people that ask teachers to help them fix their grades to make their transcripts look better. Two girls that were in the same class as me both got their 70s 60s and even 50s changed to at least 80s, some even 90s. It felt really unfair to me when I saw this, since the people that fail their tests still get the same grades on their transcripts as the people that work their butts off.
The tests in China are definitely harder to ace so the grades on the transcript sometimes don’t look that good. The highest grade for Chinese, Politics or Math in the whole grade might only be 135/150 which is barely a 90, so even if you are in the top 1% of your grade, you might still get a few Bs on your transcript. I was in the top 20 of my grade out of 800 people but I got a few Bs on my transcript:( I hope that US universities don’t take Chinese transcripts that seriously.</p>