<p>The Universal College Application - Taiwan is Taiwan. Period. The Common Application Taiwan is province of China. Which is not correct. And it's a drop down list for the country list, you have to select it. That's bad. The college application in the US should not have involved in foreign political. The ETS (ETS: Educational Testing Service – Home) Taiwan is Taiwan also. The Universal College Application and ETS are two good examples.</p>
<p>amen to that</p>
<p>I suppose there is a valid argument to be made both ways. Anyway, if you feel strongly enough to want it changed, why not just submit a helpdesk ticket to the folks at Common App?</p>
<p>Contacted The Common Application and they will not change it.</p>
<p>The Common Application don't list Hong Kong as Special Administrative Region of China. It just listed as Hong Kong. But it listed Taiwan as province of China.</p>
<p>The College Board use Taiwan only. Which is good.</p>
<p>Under the constitutions of both the R.O.C. and the P.R.C., Taiwan is a province of China. </p>
<p>This isn't about whether you support the KMT, the CCP, or the DPP. The Common Application's policy reflects the official views of both governments; it's a political reality. Moreover, they're asking you to fill out a form to provide them with information they seek, and not asking you to endorse a political position. </p>
<p>Choose your battles.</p>
<p>Amen, greybeard.</p>
<p>The fact is when the constitutions created by PRC in 1949. Taiwan wasn't under their control. Any country can make constitutions and claim any places are their territory. Like PRC can make constitutions said Canada is their territory. The fact is "Canada is not paying taxes to PRC and is not under PRC's control".
Same for Taiwan, the fact is "Taiwan is not paying taxes to PRC and is not under PRC's control". </p>
<p>When the constitutions made by ROC in 1947, Taiwan wasn't included in their territory.</p>
<p>The Common Application is political. The college application in the US should not have involved in political, especialy foreign political. The College Board and ETS don't do that. Check the colleges WEB site in US. They don't do that.</p>
<p>geez the Taiwan debate is old beyond old. skip it will you?
if you care so much about it, write about it in your essay. </p>
<p>"The college application in the US should not have involved in political, especialy foreign political."
this is not an argument that can be won by either side. regardless of what the common app says, one party is going to be unhappy. you may feel that Taiwan should be stated as a separate country, others may not. too bad.</p>
<p>LOL, OP. I guess you boycott the 2008 Olympic games. I did not see a Taiwan there. </p>
<p>At the end of the day, the economics will decide the arguement. Sooner or later, the island will be united with one of the largest economic in the world. </p>
<p>In the eyes of united nation and its members, ther is only one country - PRC. </p>
<p>Happy national day!!!!</p>
<p>agree with the OP. let's show some support!!</p>
<p>Lol @ the Olympics..Chinese Taipei</p>
<p>at least MIT is made in taiwan.</p>
<p>the CA guys must have thought of OP as an overbearing, pompous weirdo. i think that when you're applying to college, there're really more urgent things that require your immediate attention.</p>
<p>We are in the United States. The US goverment's WEB site use only Taiwan as country name. What I see so far, only the Common Application use Taiwan, province of China. The College Board, ETS, and Universal College Application all just use Taiwan as country name.</p>
<p>The following is the US Department of State web link for the country list.
A-Z</a> List of Country and Other Area Pages</p>
<p>maybe someoen who works at the commonapp is a staunch one-china-ist</p>
<p>When I lived in Taiwan, it was governed by a national assembly that included representatives of every Chinese province. The position of the government of the R.O.C. was that Taiwan was a single province out of many. It didn't matter that they exercised no territorial control over most of those other provinces.</p>
<p>They also had a provincial assembly, but it had less power than the national assembly. </p>
<p>The position of the government of the R.O.C. today is that it actively governs two provinces, one of which is Taiwan.</p>
<p>Why is it so difficult for you to accept that Taiwan is a province, when the government of the R.O.C. considers it to be so? Even members of the Alaskan Independence Party (which wants to secede from the United States) recognizes that Alaska is a state today.</p>
<p>WAHAHA!</p>
<p>If Alaska secedes, they can ask Sarah Palin to be their President.</p>
<p>I was going to comment earlier but then decided against it in the hopes that this inane thread would die down... but it hasn't!! This has like nothing to do with college admissions whatsoever, can a moderator move this to the CC Cafe or something? </p>
<p>By the way, to the OP, regardless of how these applications refer to Taiwan, it's a political statement either way. It's not only the one you disagree with that takes a political stance.</p>