re: 1/10 freshmen at u of illinois are from china

TMQDR

Too Many Questions. Didn't read.

....and Lou Malnati's pizza was very underwhelming. Much disappoint. Portillo's was on point however.

My Master's program at Tulane was about 70 students, half of them Chinese. A few of them spoke very good English, had spent a decent amount of time in the States, and understood American culture.

The vast majority of them could barely speak English, had no understanding of Western social norms, and cheated their arse off. Like, there must be no such thing as plagiarism in China. I also have no clue how the passed the TOEFL. They must have paid people to take it for them. God help you if you got paired with a non-English speaking one in a group.

Here is a recent article on the wave of Chinese intelligence pouring into Iowa City, paying tuition double that of in-state kids. FYI, The University of Iowa is the smallest Public Big Ten School with roughly 22,000 undergraduates, 32,000 total.

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The University of Iowa has intensely recruited Chinese students since 2007 but has made little progress fostering their assimilation to campus life.

In some respects, an IowaWatch investigation has found, the university's practices make interactions with domestic students more difficult for Chinese students and increased isolation. This is particularly the case with Chinese undergraduates, who pay tuition twice that of in-state students and make up the overwhelming majority of the nearly 4,000 international students at UI.

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Yifei Li, a UI senior, said people on campus have yelled "Ching Chang Ling" at her and she has seen derogatory remarks on Twitter about the university's Chinese students.

"The things you see on Twitter, you can hear them in the dorms, in the streets and when you hang out with friends," she said.

Among the difficulties Chinese students face:
• Racist insults on social media and in person, with UI failing to publicly denounce such incidents as other universities have done in similar cases.

• Separate university orientations upon arrival to campus, which from the outset reduce the opportunity for interactions and relationships with domestic students.

• Events and programs designed by the university especially for international students that seldom attract domestic students.

Top UI officials admitted that an influx of international students left them unprepared to help those students integrate with domestic students and improve campus life.

"I won't say it's perfect," UI President Sally Mason said when asked about campus life for international students. "I think we have lots more to do."

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https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/university-of-iowa/2014/06/25/ui-chinese-students-struggle-adjust/11330499/

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Georgia Tech knows all about this.

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You so beat me to that.

I was going to say "Only 1 out of 10?"

is kind of odd, it being just another interchangeable state school