两个中国学生谁优秀

两个中国学生谁优秀

To better understand how this oral interview would work in the admissions process, let's look at David and Michael, two Chinese applicants who are composites of students I've taught and who are now studying in America. David has an average GPA, a B, scored about 2000 out of 2400 on his SAT Reasoning Test, and was editor of his school's newspaper for two years. Michael has the highest GPA in his ultracompetitive high school, scored around 2300 on the SAT, got a 5 on the English Advanced Placement examination, and started his own business.

Michael is a student many American campuses would love to have, and he's set on the Ivy League (Duke is his safety school). But ultimately it doesn't matter where he goes, because he'll take courses that will ensure him a 4.0 GPA and get into a good business school. He'll be shocked that not everyone shares his passion for grades, and he'll attribute that to American shallowness. He'll drop history class because he got an A- on his first paper, and after a month on campus he'll shelter himself in his small circle of Chinese friends. After four years, he'll leave the campus very much the way he arrived.

Unlike Michael, David won't be a straight-A student. He plans to be an architect because he loves drawing, but he'll also try history and literature classes. He'll struggle to keep pace in seminar discussions, but he'll replay class discussions in his head, and one or two comments may linger with him for days. And one day he'll surprise his classmates and professors with a comment that will linger with them for days. Over the dinner-table he'll pepper his classmates with questions, and he won't graduate from college with his life all planned out like Michael. What he will graduate with is a lot of questions about himself and life, and his four years on campus he'll remember forever as a time of his intellectual blossoming.

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http://chronicle.com/article/Selecting-the-Right-Chinese/129621/

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• what's the point? conclusion based on assumption -用户名被占用了- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2011 postreply 08:14:47

• 一个适合做学问做实事，另一个适合做销售做人事。 -晓梦- ♀ (108 bytes) () 11/07/2011 postreply 08:24:22

• i don't know, but i know that i'd rather to be Michael. -20146- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2011 postreply 09:02:12

• co~~i know that i'd rather to be Michael. :) -QiTian- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2011 postreply 09:07:47

• 一语道出关键 -touji- ♂ (61 bytes) () 11/07/2011 postreply 09:42:16

• Michael可以push出来，David push不出来。 -西门观雪- ♀ (400 bytes) () 11/07/2011 postreply 09:30:02

• 同意，这就是中国父母保本的“推”的动力。 -cat69- ♀ (97 bytes) () 11/07/2011 postreply 21:04:36

• 链接里的另一篇文章有一段也有意思 -听听意见- ♀ (696 bytes) () 11/07/2011 postreply 09:39:49

• 我猥琐地揣测一下 -touji- ♂ (150 bytes) () 11/07/2011 postreply 10:06:22

• David 是美国学生或ABC。国内来的小留，几乎没有David 这样的，很多Micheal那样的。 -laoyangdelp- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2011 postreply 10:01:47