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February 07, 2006
Gao Kao
My younger cousin (last year of high school) and I in front of her boarding school. The college entrance exam system is a bit like the Rhodes Scholar applications in that with both, it's better to apply from certain regions. Each region gets a quota of a certain number of students so the score cutoffs for each region are set according to this quota. So some well-off parents send their kids to boarding school in a different region to establish residency there, where the score cutoffs are up to a hundred points lower.
Posted by rxu at February 7, 2006 03:53 AM