Elite US colleges lose favour with lucrative Asian students

I've lived in Tokyo for a long time. Most of my high-school friends also enrolled at Waseda University. I know the world I live in is too small. I thought going abroad could be a way to expand my horizons. I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a freshman, so I thought I would seek my future by seeing and learning from different kinds of people.

At the beginning, I was just sad. But during the self-quarantine period, I had plenty of time to look into something new. I did some research - now I would like to become a certified public accountant, so I've been studying for that.I'm paying a lot for an MBA degree - the programme will cost me about US$240,000 to US$250,000 including tuition and living expenses, and I plan to take out a loan.

Our organisation promotes young people's participation in public policy, and most of our ambitions are law-related . I wanted to study in the US because Taiwan uses lots of legal concepts from the US. One of the things our NGO advocates for is lowering Taiwan's voting age from 20 to 18, which in the US was achieved through constitutional amendment. So I aimed to build up a solid base for research. But I decided to postpone the plan in May.

My university provides online courses, but it's hard to study biochemistry without being in the lab. Meanwhile, the tuition is still the same. I went to the US because it has the most modern facilities. I recently graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon boarding school and came back to Seoul due to the pandemic. We had our graduation online. I'd never been to a proper graduation so I didn't really know what I was expecting. But it was good to see all my faculty at the chapel, reading out our names and giving advice. Definitely disappointed I didn't have a proper goodbye with my friends.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

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