<p>I don’t know how off colored or politically incorrect this is going to sound, but for whatever reason, I find that a lot of Chinese and Vietnamese girls who recently immigrated to this country in the past two to three years are drawn to me, and they befriend me as their first “white, American” friend. Perhaps it is because I come off as non-threatening, because after all, I am a lanky, pasty white girl who keeps to herself and what not… </p>
<p>Well, there is a group of four of my friends, who all came to the United States from China three years ago, who I independently tutor English so that they can take the TOEFL exam. They all took the SAT and did rather poorly on CR and Writing, and understandably so, because I certainly wouldn’t be able to take a Cantonese equivalent of Critical Reading if I had been in China for only three years. But maybe that’s just me. Anywho, I tutor them rudimentary English and different grammatical rules in my free periods, things like verb-subject agreement and redundancy. They seem to be understanding quite a bit and learning from my tutor sessions.</p>
<p>I told my Dad about this last night, and he said “make sure not to forget to write that on your college application.” I never had the thought of using this for college in mind as I was tutoring them. I simply wanted to help my friends, plus, the English questions on the TOEFL are really fun. My question is, I’m skeptical about putting this on a college application. It isn’t something officially facilitated by any program. Its simply me sitting by myself with three or four girls in the library, maybe three to four times a week, going over questions. </p>
<p>What are your thoughts? (About putting it on an application.)</p>