Different way of teaching acceptable

The decision of US colleges and universities to admit overseas students earlier than before has come as a relief for more than a dozen students in my daughter's middle school. They can finally bid farewell to the country's test-oriented rote and cram system.

And they don't have to spend endless hours (read: their entire senior year) doing mind-numbing tests to prepare for college entrance exams.

Next month, a significant number of students from the school will be sure of their admission in universities abroad, well before they pass-out from school.