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Asians dying to get into American Universities

by Tony Sagami on April 28, 2008

in Asian Market, Housing Market, Stock Market in China

While New Oriental Education doesn’t operate in South Korea, this article from the International Herald
Tribune
tells you how desperately Asians want to attend college in the U.S.

It is 10:30 p.m. and students at the elite Daewon prep school here are cramming in a study hall that ends a
15-hour school day.

Preparing to get to the best American universities has become something of a national obsession in
Korea.

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