Word: beida
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to matriculate as a full-year student at Beida [Peking University] because of Harvard's strict constraints on the Core Curriculum, so I was forced to go through the exceedingly expensive route of CIEE, the Council on International Educational Exchange," Brian P. Betty '97 wrote in an e-mail...
...While CIEE-Beida is much cheaper than Harvard, it is upwards of 18 times more expensive to use CIEE [than direct enrollment in Beida]. If I went myself to Beida, it would be phenomenally cheaper for a year as a private student than for one semester with CIEE," Betty added...
Lewison Lee Lem, a Harvard admissions officer, calls this parental attitude "the Beida syndrome." Beida, which refers to Peking University in Mandarin, is shorthand for the push in Asian countries to be accepted at the top national institution, a tradition that stems from the Confucian emphasis on bureaucratic status via education. Once admitted, students are guaranteed a secure future, and parents feel they have done their duty...