Reply #4: Interesting....worrying?

[Runcible Spoon]

of all the Asian grad students I have known, ALL of them "deserved" to be there and were just as studious and serious as anyone else. However, I think it's fairly deliberate on the part of the Chinese university system to limit their own number of facilities and exploit the generally liberal and non-exclusionary policies many postgraduate admissions boards have.

Undergraduate programs often have a separate admissions department from postgraduate admissions which tend to handle admissions within the specific departments of study and at most require a double admittance (for my program, I had to be admitted by both Graduate Admissions as well as the department to which I was applying..undergrads had a separate Admissions Department altogether).

Undergraduate schools DO accept a lot of foreign students, but admissions tend to favor US students, especially State schools that offer a certain percentage of admissions to in-state students along with reduced tuition. Admissions to postgrad programs tend to be at the sole discretion of how the departments want to allocate their resources, as grad students cost departments a section of their budget, unlike undergrads. I think there is a deliberate attempt on China and other countries' part to restrict how many postgrad opportunities they offer and the most obvious result is a huge overflow into American grad programs.