<p>Agreed with k&s.</p>
<p>Often, the Asian educational system is just the opposite of its American counterpart: their high schools are very serious and their universities aren’t as serious, whereas in America, high school is party time and only in college do most people get serious about academics (although some believe that both high school AND college are for partying). Like k&s said, it’s getting in to the elite universities that counts… after that, you’re pretty much set for life. (This is probably the most true in Japanese universities, as that’s the system I’m most familiar with.)</p>
<p>I’ve known of people who are into their 3rd year at elite Japanese universities (Waseda, Keio, Tokyo, and Kyoto) who have no idea what they’re going to major in. And it really doesn’t matter, because businesses will hire them no matter what their grades were and what classes they took, just because they’re from $elite_university.</p>