How could they work in the US without proper visa?
They get sponsored by a company who recruits from their university.
Oh please, I was so far outside the bubble I could barely remember what the bubble looked like. Sometimes you just want a cheeseburger, and that’s a legit concern.
It may depend on whether the OP means “Chinese” to refer only to international students from China, or inclusive of Chinese Americans (who are much more numerous than international students from China as undergraduates in many US universities).
I wish Chronicle of Higher Education would update this interactive map. Its excellent, and fun to play with. Shows where the freshman class of many schools come from:
http://chronicle.com/interactives/freshmen_insts
I wish they would too, @jym626 ! It would be a great resource (again).
Not so easy. I hire (need) people for high tech. I have to justify to my company to spend legal fees to sponsor talents.
I knew a lot of Chinese students when I went to school. None of them had any trouble getting offers with sponsorship. Not every company is willing to but plenty do.
There is a limited number of visas that are issued each year and the number changes each year. We pay for external immigration lawyers to advise us. They inform us probability of each candidate’s likelihood of getting a visa.
How long ago did you go to school?
- I don't think that the OP is saying there should be no Chinese students. I think he just wants to Interact with American students too. If I were sending a kid to school in China, I would want them to learn language and culture too. I am sure they would have American friends, but I would hope that they would also develop Chinese friends.
- I think we still need an idea of the students test scores to be much help with schools.
I graduated a little less than 2 years ago.
It changes every year and it is limited to jobs that can’t be filled by citizens/green card holders. I think it would be a mistake for people to think by going to an US college would guarantee a visa to work here.
Most of the H-1B visa holders I have encountered (at “regular” companies, not outsourcing companies) have graduate degrees from US universities. It may be that most of the H-1B hiring of bachelor’s degree holders is in the low paying outsourcing companies (who make up the top ten H-1B visa sponsors for 2015).
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2015-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx
Thanks a lot to all posters again. You are very nice and warm-hearted and I am very glad to send my child to so nice a country to study. May you and me become good friends.
OP had mentioned about LAC’s. Just wanted to add another comment in addition to the ones already here about social fit etc. at LAC’s. Is the student sufficiently fluent in written English to be able to write at the level expected an many of the selective LAC’s? The student would also have to comfortable enough with spoken English to be able to follow and contribute to the discussions in class, which can be somewhat nuanced, particularly in the English and humanities classes.
I would second the idea of looking at colleges near bigger metro areas and well rated state universities, both from a budget standpoint and from a “fit” point of view (unless we know more about the student). There will be other Asian and Asian American students there, but there are plenty other things to do as well, so a student has many more choices.
Would a degree from a decent state university in the US carry weight in China for a job? It is not a guarantee that a US employer will sponsor a foreign student for a job (especially at the BS level).
I’m wondering about the reason for the OP’s question. There are going to be foreign students at US colleges, but there are plenty of American students there also. Even at schools which have high Asian populations, many of those students are Asian-American, not Chinese. I think at any US school, your child would have plenty of opportunity to interact with American students, and also an opportunity to spend their time with Chinese students speaking Chinese. I visited a number of well-known colleges with my older daughter in the past few years. We sat in on STEM classes at most of these schools, and generally, there were a lot of Asian students in them. But only at Carnegie Mellon did I see large numbers of Chinese students sticking together as they left class, and many groups speaking Chinese to one another. That would probably not be the environment you are looking for. Other than that, I think the experience your child has is what he chooses to make of it.
“My child is top 1% in the class.” I don’t know much about the Chinese school system, but if this is top 1% at a good Chinese school, then your child may prefer a school that attracts higher-achieving American students.
According to one journal article, the median distance from home to college in the USA is 94 miles.
http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ838811
According to a 2011 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s almanac, over 70% of American college students attend a public institution.
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2011/09/06/20-surprising-higher-education-facts
So it appears that Vladenschlutte’s point in post #16 was not far off the mark.
On the other hand, the children of American college professors are much more likely than the average student to attend small liberal arts colleges (most of which are private). According to TheThinking Student’s Guide to College, the two most popular colleges for professors’ kids, according to one survey of 5,592 students, were Oberlin and Carleton. The majority of students at schools like these do come from out of state.
http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/721149.html
(see the box labeled, “Where Do Professors Send Their Children to College?”)
Every kind of college has its pros and cons (or supporters and detractors). If you’re interested in schools that are very good at what they do, but relatively unfamiliar to international families, LACs may at least be worth a look.
In this forum, I get first-hand information that I need and that I can not get in China. Americans know American colleges more. I find that there are so many parents who want to help others.
In a short word , I want to know what colleges are nice colleges in American parents’ and students’ mind and which college you hope your kids to apply and why.
Because your ideas will be very helpful to me.
Thank you once more.
You need to distinguish between what is “nice” vs what is “realistic”. Everyone would like to drive a Lambourghini, but a Lambourghini is irrelevant as a car purchase option if it is unattainable. A rich student w mediocre achievement but no cost constraints is going to have a different list of “nice” schools compared to a poor American kid who is a star achiever but needs generous FA.
You stated earlier that you could probably afford ~30,000 per year. You need to focus on schools where attending for that amount is possible. That means schools with a low overall full-pay cost (i.e. cheaper public universities), or private schools (and some public schools) at which your child is a very competitive candidate for merit aid. At schools which give FA to int’l candidates, the int’l candidate has to be exceptional.
There are a few schools where generous merit aid is AUTOMATIC based on stats, even for int’l students. An example of this is University of Alabama. Automatic full-tuition scholarship for 1400 SAT (Math + Critical Reading score) and 3.5 GPA.
I think that for a kid who ranks top 1% and whose parents have about 30-40K, colleges like Wooster, Ohio Wesleyan, St Olaf, Denison, Rhodes, Hendrix, Beloit, Kalamazoo… would be good.
I agree Carleton would be a great choice - not as well known in Asia but topnotch.
I would recommend getting “Insider’s Guide to the Colleges” and/or “Fiske Guide”, plus “Colleges that change lives”, and reading through them, making notes. Then pass it on to your child, have him amake a list. Then, compare lists!