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<p>That may be true in reality, but that’s not the perception among a critical mass of Chinese parents who are likely to be paying full-tuition plus extra expenses for their kids to attend US colleges or more importantly, most of the employers providing desirable highly paid and/or prestige careers/jobs after graduation. </p>
<p>If a parent is going to be shelling out that amount of money…they want to be sure that the degree their kid gets from a US college will be reputable in the eyes of potential employers to be worth the high expenses incurred. </p>
<p>This is especially considering the fact that even now…most Chinese-based employers only know of a few highly reputed famous US universities/LACs and/or have the perception that the rest of the US colleges/universities aren’t good enough to warrant the trip and high expenses…especially if their kid could gain admission to a topflight Chinese university…which makes even tippy-top elite US undergrad admissions look like a walk in the park. </p>
<p>This isn’t helped by reinforcement of such perceptions in Chinese mass media…including a line from one film in which a cop father who saved up a lot of money to send his son to the US asked a US-based friend to “help him research “good schools” as he’s heard there’s many lousy universities/colleges in the USA.”</p>