U.S. Colleges Bask in Surge Of Interest Among Chinese

Colleges & Universities University of Virginia
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<p>[U.S&lt;/a&gt;. Colleges Bask in Surge of Interest Among Chinese - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/04/30/ST2009043004177.html?sid=ST2009043004177]U.S”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/04/30/ST2009043004177.html?sid=ST2009043004177)</p>

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<p>You’ve already posted this elsewhere.</p>

<p>UVa Forum: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/706796-u-s-colleges-bask-surge-interest-among-chinese.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/706796-u-s-colleges-bask-surge-interest-among-chinese.html&lt;/a&gt;
Parent Cafe: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/706794-u-s-colleges-bask-surge-interest-among-chinese.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/706794-u-s-colleges-bask-surge-interest-among-chinese.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Shouldn’t these posts be consolidated?</p>

<p>Amazing reader comments on the original article, by the way.</p>

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<p>Dean J, will the large number of Chinese students this year be spread around in the housing and thus a given person could end up with another Chinese, another international student, or “regular Americans”, or is there a more concrete way this is approached?</p>

<p>For example, could some of them end up in the dorms with the Echols Scholars?</p>

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<p>Some non-Echols students do end up in Echols dorms. I don’t think a lot, but I know of some people who do.</p>

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<p>Echols isn’t just for US citizens, so yes, if a Chinese student was offered Echols and they matriculated here, they’d be in the Echols dorm. Except for the Echols/Rodman hall and the residential colleges, first years are placed somewhat randomly in the halls. Housing would be the best office to answer that question more specifically, though.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t characterize the number of Chinese students who are here as large. Just as overall application numbers are going up each year, so are applications from non-US citizens. Our ratios remain the same. We will be 2/3 Virginian until the state decides to change that mandate.</p>

<p>There were 214 undergraduates from China enrolled last year, across all four classes.
There were 12,490 US citizens enrolled last year.</p>

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<p>I could have been clearer. I meant “large” by historical standards for people from mainland China. </p>

<p>Does the university have a public goal of increasing the proportion of the 1/3 non-Virginians who are international instead of US?</p>

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I haven’t seen anything that would indicate that. International students usually make up about 5% of the students here.</p>

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<p>Hahahahahaha that looks like the IRC kitchen.</p>

<p>And I know those two!</p>

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<p>Reader comments are increasingly ignorant, uninformed and racist.</p>

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<p>They also have no conception of economics.</p>

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<p>Are you up studying for finals, galoisien?</p>

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<p>Indeed.</p>

<p>Caffeine is my greatest friend at the moment.</p>

<p>I know I’m going to crash badly on the 8th. Damn move out day, I want to sleep for a week after this is over.</p>

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<p>It’s like 5:20 am and I’ve been reading my CS book all night. With that, I’m going to bed now so I can study more tomorrow.</p>

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<p>Good luck on those exams, all. We’re not looking forward to seeing you all leave…it gets way too quiet around here!</p>

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<p>Oh my god you two. Even I drew the line and went to bed at 4:45. I’ve also been up since 7 though…ack</p>