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<p>To the average Li/employer on the street, that’s correct for better or worse. </p>
<p>Then again…at least at the undergrad level…there’s still a strong preference for a kid to have attended a topflight Chinese University(i.e. Bei-da, Tsinghua, Ren-da, Nankai, Fudan, Shanghai Jiaotong…and other elite tippy-top schools) to attending a US undergrad. Granted…this thinking is starting to change within the last 2-4 years…though it was much more dominant back in the early '00s and earlier. </p>
<p>One of the main reasons why upper/upper-middle class Chinese parents have been sending their kids to the US for undergrad is because the competition for admission isn’t nearly as cutthroat and numbers driven*. Some Chinese Profs and grad students at an Ivy campus mentioned that many of the undergrads on the same campus may not have scored high enough to gain admission to a second-third tier Chinese university because the competition in the examination is so stiff. </p>
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<li>The applicant’s score on the National College Entrance examination determines not only which school one is admitted to…but also his/her major.</li>
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