More Chinese enrolling at US community colleges
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The number of Chinese students in community colleges in the United States has increased from 2,500 in 2007 to more than 16,200, according a report in the Los Angeles Times, with a growing number from lower middle class families seeking a US degree.
Thousands of students from affluent families enroll in US colleges each year. But for every student who shows up with unimaginable wealth, there are several struggling financially, said Amy Yan, assistant director of the international student center at Pasadena City College.
“It is a stereotype that all Chinese students are rich and have Benzes and Bentleys. It’s just not true,” she said. “It’s just that the rich students show off more.”
In China, intermediary agencies are marketing US community colleges as a stepping stone to a four-year university course.
“It used to be that only the top students could come to the US,” Michael Wan, chief executive of the Irvine-based Wenmei Education Consulting Group, told the newspaper. “Now, anybody with money can come.”
Chinese students say they are attracted to the freedom the US educational system offers.
Xiang Lantian, the only child of two office workers from central China’s Hunan Province, said he found the pressure of taking the Chinese college entrance exam stifling. He ended up attending Pasadena City College and is now a third-year financial actuarial mathematics major at UCLA.
“I wanted to have an experience in a foreign country,” said Xiang, 22. “And I wanted to figure out what my heart wanted.”
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