Chinese normal university is a not an amazing university (why would you even go there to study chinese unless you were doing hte princeton in beijing program???)....honestly Bei Shida its not even considered part of the mingpai universities or top 11. WHoever said Oxford is easy to get into is a moron but lets get this straight about Chinese higher education. The only way of applying to a school is one exam...the gao kao, that exam decides your entire academic future. And its not even an even exam, depending on where you live, the score level changes for a top university. The only difference is that RECENTLY the top 6-7 schools have decided to create special exams for exceptional students which includes an interview similar to the Oxford interview, the kids are guaranteed to get into one of the schools based on that but usually A-Ban students in provinces are the ones that are able to put down they want to try for those top schools even thogh everyone takes the same gaokao if you are C-Ban or D-Ban they will not let you say you want to check peking university or tsinghua. Grad school is the same, doesn't matter what grades you have, if you past the test you are in. The chinese higher education is purely on wrote. That is why the top schools are changing it around to try to mimic the american system, they want creative students because they want China to become a hub of study in Asia. As in People flock to America, UK, Canada, Australia..........AND CHINA for their degrees. PS no one who has not lived in a place for no less than 3 years should ever say they are an expert on the place.