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

Chekov
Fri, 24 Feb 2023 04:57:47 +0000

ucbalumnus:

The academic elites among China’s huge population may be winning these contests, but overall participation in postsecondary academics is low in China.

I don’t claim to be an expert on China, but I know it is still very much a developing country with lots of poverty the likes of which most Americans can not fathom.

When I was in India some decade and a half ago, I was shocked to learn that they had 400 million people living without electricity - that is more than the entire population of the United States. Looks like that number fell to about 240 million over the next decade.

So we can’t measure the US and China and India by the same development yardsticks.

But now we really digress…