CalTech adds REA (replacing prior EA), extends test blind policy for 2 years

ucbalumnus
Fri, 24 Feb 2023 04:49:05 +0000

Chekov:

Not sure about India, but China most certainly is, insofar as their performance on IMO, IOI etc can be considered a proxy for the depth of their talent bench. No questions about it. The competition on these events is almost exclusively between the Chinese, Chinese Americans, and a smattering of exSoviets.

The academic elites among China’s huge population may be winning these contests, but overall participation in postsecondary academics is low in China. https://gpseducation.oecd.org/CountryProfile?primaryCountry=CHN&treshold=10&topic=EO says that “Among 25-64 year-olds in China, short-cycle tertiary qualifications are the most common tertiary attainment at 10% of the population followed by bachelor’s degrees at 8% and master’s and doctoral degrees combined with 1%. This is different from the OECD average, where bachelor’s degrees are most common (19%), followed by master’s degrees (14%) and short cycle tertiary qualifications (7%).”