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Top-of-the-class children take exams to enter middle schools and flow to other schools, such as unified middle and high schools. We need a base where we can gather good students from across the countr

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Ryuji Umehara, 45, chief of Waseda University's project team for attached and affiliated schools. Next year, renowned private universities in Tokyo and the Kansai region plan to open a number of new schools, including attached or affiliated middle schools, in a bid to attract bright students at an early stage. (Yomiuri Shimbun)

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Just what kids need, more exams and MORE pressure to get into uni-affilated schools!

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Another lame, misguided idea. Just what this country needs... more people moving to the Tokyo and Kansai regions. Ya gotta wonder if the left hand has a clue what the right hand is doing in this country. I mean, in one report we hear about how smaller communities are being drained of their human resources by big cities, then we have this misguided idea to pull even more students.

Get a clue Umehara, go overseas to recruit talented students for your ailing University. You're scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

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I guess Japan is not like the States, where you don't necessarily have to come from the East coast, and be affluent and have the right connections to get into places like Harvard, Yale, Brown, etc. I know it sure helps if you have that background, but it is not a requirement. That way, a very bright kid from say the midwest or deep south can make it to those schools.

Ya gotta wonder if the left hand has a clue what the right hand is doing in this country. I mean, in one report we hear about how smaller communities are being drained of their human resources by big cities, then we have this misguided idea to pull even more students

Good points, I guess you will not have success in this country unless you have a name brand university behind you. Not like in the some from out west in America, going to the Univ of Ariz, and making a name for themself by graduating, getting a job in a place like Phoenix and becoming successful. It seems to me that here in Japan, the bottom line to being seen as successful is making it in the large cities, where in America and other places, just becuase you don't make it to New York, LA and other major cities that does not mean that you can not make a success for yourself.

So is it a guarntee that if a student goes to an affilated school that they will get in? What happens to those who don't make it to the next level?

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