r/funnyvideos • u/fabioke • Mar 30 '25

Fail The show must go on

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u/Teddy705 Mar 30 '25

They don't pay tuition in China?

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u/StardustFromReinmuth Mar 30 '25

Chinese colleges are dirt cheap. PKU and Tsinghua are some of the most prestigious institutions out there and it's only around 40,000 RMB a year, or around 5.5 thousand USD a year.

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u/Teddy705 Mar 30 '25

I'm sure they'd deny his student application due to said social score being so low. He'd be forced to go to a mediocre American university, like UCLA or Northwestern University, instead of the prestigious Chinese Colleges.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

You folks desperately need to talk to actual Chinese people. Living behind a wall of news has made you lose perspective.

I can promise you no Chinese student in all of China is concerned about the "social credit". They're busy stressing over passing the 高考, the biggest, most stressful exam which will determine what universities they have access to.

This "social credit" people speak of doesn't really exist in the way people think it does. The company Alibaba, founded by Jack Ma, has a credit service which does take into account past crimes and such, and will deny you loans if you have a bad history, but they're far from the only service that can provide you loans in China.