<p>Why does this mean that Chinese people are smarter than Americans?</p>
<p>You are referring to 10 people out of a population of almost 1.2 billion</p>
<p>^ You can’t consider the entire population since most of it is still rural. Americans overall have VERY VERY VERY low standards on pre-college education for the resources they have.</p>
<p>Thats because when the budget gets tight, the first thing politicians cut is education</p>
<p>I hear that magnet nurseries are beginning to appear all over the country. Kindergarten entrance is tough these days.</p>
<p>A school that sends 10 kids to harvard, internationally, is very, very impressive. Each year, probably less than 25 of international chinese students are offered admission at harvard, so it doesn’t make sense to compare a US school, which also sends 10+ to H, with an international school.</p>
<p>I don’t even think I can even make into a top 50 chinese U if I were there; there’s too much competition.</p>
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<p>no THIS doesn’t mean anything. Look at their textbooks and homework and then you’ll know what I mean.</p>
<p>It might mean something, though.
Not that they are smarter, but that the educational system of one country is different from another.
I have friends here in Brazil that got into MIT in the middle of highshool and are avarege students… they couldn’t even get into a decent medschool here.
That doesn’t mean that our education is better than yours, though. For instance, American universities are amongst the top ones in the world, whereas only a few from Brazil achieve that rank.</p>
<p>^i dont believe you. How does one get into colleges in the middle of HS?</p>
<p>^ well… for starters.
In my case, for instance. here’s a part of what I posted in another thread:</p>
<p>-In Brazil we don’t have to take pre-med. We just take the entrance exams (kinda like the SAT’s, but harder) and, in the case of medschools, we have to go through 6 years of college. We don’t need six years because we have to learn the subjects pre-med students take. We actually take all of those “pre” subjects (regarding all subjects) in highschool as part of our basic curricullum;</p>
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<li><p>I’m not saying, by any means, that myself or anyone is superior or inferior, I’m only stating differences that are facts, such as methods of evaluation regarding college admissions in my country;</p></li>
<li><p>Each college has a different entrance exam, and they are more difficult than the SAT’s because the grades we achieve here in Brazil throughout highschool are of no importance to any university here. Therefore, they have to evaluate us through a harsher exam (and only by that we are evaluated - that sucks);</p></li>
<li><p>I can only state these facts because I have friends and acquaintances that took the SAT’s, got admitted into American universities (such as the MIT) and stated that, although most universities in the US are better than in Brazil (due to financial and historycal reasons), it is much harder to get accepted into college here (all of the ones that got admited into MIT failed to get into medschool here, eventhough they had prepared themselves to get into medschool and not MIT, they just applied for it because they were curious);</p></li>
<li><p>I appologise in advance to anyone that feels offended by my message, it is not my intention to offend anyone or, aparently, show off. I also appologise for my English, it must be very poor, since I only learned the language from age 4 to grade 8. : /</p></li>
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<p>That’s not true. Your relative got some misinformation. There’re 10 people in total from China going to Harvard this year.</p>
<p>I know a Moldava guy who is admited to harvard when he was 14, and he delayed like the admission for 3 years to have a highschool life, and to bring 3 more IMO gold medal.</p>
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I find this statement kind of over-exaggerated. They do get good grades; they do study hard; but they have sacrificed everything for the sake of looking clever. What they get are not education, it’s rote-learning, and maybe rote-learning skills. </p>
<p>Besides, from very reliable sources,** I can tell you that there are 13ish Chinese students in total got into Harvard this year. **One of them is from Harbin. Your aunt is definitely wrong. </p>
<p>Most Chinese parents don’t understand even a little about US education, and they say everything exaggeratedly. My aunt who lives in China also, for example, once told her colleagues that every professor at Caltech is a Nobel Laureate, and 5% of all Caltech graduates are Nobel laureates, and if you want to go to US school, you have to attend TOEFL college first. 
What’s more shocking is that her colleagues believed her, and they said Wow your niece must be a genius! So I guess that’s the way with Chinese who don’t understand American educational systems.</p>
<p>The Average Asian iq is 5 points higher than a white persons. 25 points higher than a black person.</p>