Getting in with a bunch of westerners is probably easier if you have a name like them. I've also heard that from many Chinese they consider Pinyin as "not being their real name" regardless, so they don't see a major difference between that and just having a West name anyway.
Why do so many rich Chinese people have western sounding first names?
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almost all are not their given name, when you learn English you usually choose an Anglo name to use
Getting in with a bunch of westerners is probably easier if you have a name like them. I've also heard that from many Chinese they consider Pinyin as "not being their real name" regardless, so they don't see a major difference between that and just having a West name anyway.