r/ChinaLiuXueSheng

The 3 interviewers I had were so brisk and impatient with me. For context, I applied for a chinese-taught program. They seemed sick of me before we even started.

Question 1: Why do adults give children hongbao on Chinese New Year? What does this signify? Talk about your perspective.

Genuinely, respectfully, what the fuck? I applied for Physics, not for Chinese culture. Please bffr. I said stuff about the significance of the color red as well as money and good luck for the new year, but it was total BS. As for my perspective, I said it was like a crucial vehicle to maintain Chinese culture or something.

Question 2: What are the advantages of clean energy vehicles over traditional ones?

Slightly easier I guess. But I went on a tangent about greenhouse gases and how they trap sunlight through reflection of infrared rays and how this causes global warming, so they cut me off. Though this isn't really a question you can get wrong.

Question 3: What are the personal impacts of losing motivation?

The specific word they used was 执行力. I had no idea what that meant, so I just assumed it was motivation and started yapping about how it causes people to become disillusioned and lose hope for their futures and stuff. Yeah idfk bro...

Question 4: What do you plan to study at Tsinghua?

For context, they'd been pressuring me to hurry up my responses since I yapped a lot and also thought about questions a lot, so they got really really impatient. For this one, they explicitly said to respond in one sentence lmao. I said I hope to study Astrophysics.

Question 5: Math question: smallest positive period of 3sin(2x+pi/4)

Soo... I didn't know what 周期 was. The question also had an english translation, which did say period, but the "positive" part threw me off. What do you mean positive period? Are there negative periods (no, since period does not have direction)? How can you have a smallest period when period is the same for the entire function, always? I think this question was designed to trip up intl.s like me who didn't learn math in chinese. So I answered the smallest x positive x intercept instead: 3pi/8. The period of the function is pi.

Safe to say, I'm not getting into Tsinghua.

Hello,

I applied relatively late to all programs, but still before the deadlines. I’ve noticed many posts from applicants who recently received interview invitations (for other programs, though). Does anyone have experience with the typical timeframe for decisions or interviews for Law LLM programs?

Thanks in advance!

when will peking uni interview results come out?

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to decide between Computer Science and Robotics Engineering for my bachelor’s at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HIT Shenzhen).

My goals are:

•	Ideally get a job right after graduation 

•	Possibly if I can’t get a job apply for a Master’s in AI abroad later (Europe or US)

I’m a bit confused because:

•	Robotics sounds interesting, but I heard it might require a master’s/PhD to get good jobs

•	CS seems more flexible, especially for software and AI but the unemployment rate is a bit high

So I wanted to ask:

1.	Which degree has better job opportunities right after a bachelor’s?

2.	Is Robotics a bad idea if I don’t plan to do a master’s immediately?

3.	For applying to AI master programs abroad, Cs or robotics give better advantage? 

Would really appreciate your advice 🙏

I checked my portal about a week ago and saw that I was pre-admitted, but I didn’t receive any email about it. I emailed the admissions office asking what I should do, and they just explained what pre-admission means and told me to keep checking the portal regularly. Has anyone else been pre-admitted and actually received an email? IS THIS A GOOD SIGN THAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG

Hi! I would like to offer to help modify anyones materials to maximize the chance of getting their CIS scholarship.

I have received CIS scholarship (Language program) aswell as have a good relationship with university staff, so I do know what they pay attention to in your motivational letter and other materials.

Is anyone interested?

Guys i had my Zijing college interview, and in the math question about vectors i answered it fast, and they waited for 40 seconds before moving on. When I asked if it was right, one of them smirked and said yes after those 40 seconds. idk what this means, and I checked; my solution was the correct one.

Drop ur stats there(SAT, IELTS, major, etc.)

hey guys did they ask you to open the recommendation letter envelope or show them the original documents? I was prepared all them but they didn’t ask at all🫠

I don’t know which one is better for me

I'm yet to take the Csca exams. I have it in April. is it too late for me to apply for medschool September 2026 intake??

I want to apply to shantou, Nanjing, Ningxia, Jiangsu, gmxu. I have an 87 average, but I haven't taken the CSCA yet. I wanted to know what are the lowest marks people have gotten in with. I live in Canada as well, and did hs in Canada. Do I have a chance?

I had my interview this morning and did well on most of the questions (it seemed like the interviewers liked me!) but totally flunked the math. Through a mixture of it being 3 am and me not knowing how to do logarithms by hand I failed to even provide an answer at all. Is it safe to assume that I’m not getting accepted? Please be honest with me, I’m trying to decide whether to wait visit china to tour NYUSH until Tsinghua comes out so I can tour both in one trip. If Tsinghua is 100% out of the question now I’ll just set up the tour this weekend. Any info on when results come out would also be great!

THE WORST INTERVIEW EVER

Hi everyone, wannabe postgraduate student in economics here. I’m aiming at a Msc in Finance/Management, english taught.

i was wondering how hard it is to get accepted in C9 an Tier1 universities as an international student.

I’m graduating next year with a mediocre GPA (let’s say a 75-80%…), i know it’s low but it’s because i am working during that time, i’ll say it in the personal statement, hoping it justifies the low gpa. i’m 22 and graduating in time. 7/7.5 IELTS. HSK 3 (even tho i’m aiming at a english taught program). hypothesizing i get a 700+ in a GMAT test to make up for the low GPA…

how hard would it realistically be for me to get accepted and to get a fully funded scholarship?

i know i’m nearly done for peking/tsinghua but what about Fudan, SYSU, SJTU or others?

thanks to everyone.

I’m in the process of applying for it however I must do the math exam to apply for it also to apply I have to pay like a fee however I don’t know how likely it is to get the full scholarship or partial to study bachelors

hello I am planning to come to China next year for a master's degree but my primary goal is to start an export business. So I am planning to take my major logistics and supply or international business no matter MBA/MS

but I am not good at studies my current GPA is 6.8. Please help me what colleges should I target also is March intake available for 2027 for those. Also if you have some knowledge about import exports please tell me as a fresher with lots of ambition will I make it

Is there any ways of me getting a job if I decided on becoming an international student at a Chinese uni? I have wanted to go to china for some time now I'm deciding to attend my uni days there but I'm concerned about the tuitions. My parents are middle middle class so they can still provide me with stay and tuitions some what but I still want extra money and help out with the tuitions!! Although there might be a chance for me to get a scholarship via my GCSE results (I'm taking them in 2027), I still want extra money and help around as much as I can. I'm deciding to go on 2028-2029 depending of my situations, please help me out and if there is anything you would like to recommend even unrelated to tuition/financial stuffs, please don't be shy to give me light :3

Hey, guys, I just finished my interview for Tsinghua went really well when do you think we can expect some answers?

I don’t know which one is better for me