The Chinese Are Coming, and They Need Help With the Admissions Process

The Chinese Are Coming, and They Need Help With the Admissions Process 1

Douglas Paulin for The Chronicle

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Douglas Paulin for The Chronicle

The streets of Nanjing, China, are quiet at 6:30 a.m. Much of the early traffic consists of young people on bikes and city buses, on their way to a school day that begins at about 7:15 and ends after 5. American parents would never dream of letting their kids navigate a city of six million—there are no school buses—but Chinese parents think nothing of it.

The students at High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University, where I work, settle into their desks each morning

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