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lcampoy posted...

At least its not as bad as some of the Asian countries. A lot of them have cram school after their regular classes.

In the US, students aspiring to top universities have to fill their afterschool time with sports, extracurricular activities, and various out-of-school stuff so that they can "stand out" as candidates. Is that really so different from cram school? At least in the Asian countries, the college admissions process is incredibly transparent and equal - you get in if you have the required score, you don't get in if you don't.

Here, in the US, we put our hard-working and aspirational students through a meat grinder of extracurricular activities, many of which are incredibly expensive (much moreso than cram school - some travel sports leagues are thousands of dollars a year just to join), all to do something that they *THINK* (you never know since college admissions in the US are opaque) will make them look better, but won't guarantee anything. I'm not sure which one is worse.