national taiwan university

Heyyyyyy any other Taiwanese out there?
Anyway, I’m currently a ROC/USA dual citizenship student in California right now. I would consider going back to Taiwan to study for undergrad, but I’m not sure since I don’t have any memories of living there. (1.5 gen immigrant…) Do you know of any precollege programs? I remember when I looked through this in the past someone said they attended one at NTU but I really can’t find one on their website. Thanks guys.

I’m Taiwanese with a similar background to you :slight_smile: Unfortunately I’m not contemplating studying undergrad in Taiwan, so I can’t give you any information about precollege programs at NTU, but I can provide a general idea about NTU. I would highly recommend going back to Taiwan to study for undergrad if you can get into NTU. Obviously a top 25 school in the US would probably be a better option than NTU given the current situation of the Taiwanese economy, but NTU is quite well respected so you should have no problems getting into top US graduate schools once you graduate from NTU assuming you receive good grades (A lot of my relatives are NTU alumni and a few are current faculty members so this is anecdotal information). There are foreign students at NTU ( a lot from South Asian countries from my impression) and the local kids there should be pretty nice to foreign grown dual citizens so you shouldn’t face any issues with school life. However, you should probably brush up on your Chinese skills (at least fluent in speech and able to read articles) if you want to study in Taiwan for communication/social purposes.

Thanks dude! Anyway, I’m conversationally fluent and like…half literate…(I can read like a young elementary schooler I guess lol). Is that enough??? I’ve heard that most of their classes are in english ?

I’m not exactly familiar with the courses taught in English at NTU, so you’d have to investigate that by yourself sorry. I’If you can read like an elementary schooler, I guess that’s better than a lot of kids that grew up abroad so that’s good. Judging from the amount of international students at NTU, I doubt they all speak and read Chinese fluently, so there should definitely be course offerings in English, maybe just don’t expect them to be of the same standard as the ones in Chinese.

NTU is actually one of the schools I’ve looked in to study abroad. They are of real high standard. I’m pretty sure they can accommodate you both in English and Chinese. I rooting for you to grab that opportunity to study there :smiley:

Thank you guys for all this advice! I’ll definitely be considering this as an option if i get it. Lol.

Let us know how you do :smiley: