Why must a Chinese take a harder course than non-Chinese students?

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Besides, you can’t tell me that Med Schools look at your GPA without looking at what classes you’ve taken. And their reaction on seeing someone who is fluent in Chinese that took 4 Chinese classes in their career is probably going to cancel out any boost it gave their GPA.

a) They will look at the sort of courses you generally take, but they won’t give a damn whether or not the class has the word “heritage” in it. They ABSOLUTELY care about your GPA.
b) You completely invented the thing about taking four years of the language, someone could take the heritage class and then stop or vice versa.</p>

<p>Of course, this isn’t even about skill, placement is apparently determined by ethnicity.</p>

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Come on now, a B in a non-scientific class, which has the potential to bring your GPA down by less than .1, is going to hurt you?

That is the difference between a 3.9 and a 4.0. If you don’t mind getting B’s, you’d probably get more enjoyment by just skipping class and not studying for finals. And once again, med schools care about GPA very much, because it makes it easy to compare applicants and is used to calculate med school rankings.</p>