'Asian Americans benefit from affirmative action policies, which require admissions teams to learn about the complex set of issues facing different Asian-American groups instead of treating us as a monolith...'
, the national college entrance exam that determines where students can go to university, if at all.
Though students rank their preferred institutions, their exam score is essentially the only factor that determines if and where they will be admitted. Some students whose families could afford it had been in private tutoring and classes for most of their lives in preparation for those two days. We showed up to the nearest testing location right before the students had been released. Gathered a respectable distance from the door, parents, grandparents, and younger siblings craned their necks to catch of glimpse of their student’s face as the test-takers began to stream out of the building.
Despite the discomfort of growing up Chinese in suburban Indiana, I couldn’t help but feel thankful that my path to college in the United States involved fewer do-or-die moments.is a controversial subject for many recent Chinese immigrants, many of whom have their own stories of struggle — and it’s no wonder.
I know little about the Gaokao, but hope that it more reliably measures student aptitude than the SAT and ACT, which
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