China is a very important source of students for American education. And the money Chinese students bring with them has spawned an industry bent on seeing even more find their way here.
As of last year, a report from the Institute of International Education says more than 723,000 international students are studying at U.S. colleges and Universities. One out of five of those students are from China, far more than any other country.
And their numbers are growing. In 2011, 157,558 Chinese students were attending school in the United States, a 23.5% increase over the previous year.
That's why many colleges and universities are busy trying to identify families from China who can afford to send their children to the United States to study.
But since many of those families want to give their children a head start on college, hundreds of private academic placement services have joined the competition. And they provide packages that sometimes find entire families with a place to live and enrollment for their children in high schools, and in some cases, middle schools.
One of those businesses is the Astar Education Institute located outside of Washington DC. It's a business model that's doing very well.
"It's very expensive," according to the school's Assistant Director, Dr. Candice Quinn.
"All of our students and all of our families are of the upper echelon of the socio-economic background in China," she said.
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