April 25, 2007
Directors
The Admissions Office
US Colleges and Universities
Re: 2007 US College Recommendation Consortium in China
Dear Sir or Madam:
Over 300,000 Chinese students and scholars are studying in the US. Over 30,000 new Chinese students come to US colleges every year. Jiangsu Province is one of the most economically developed and most populated provinces in China (Number 1 GDP in the country; a population of over 74,000,000; 850 high schools and 500,000 high school graduates each year). There is a great demand among Jiangsu’s high school graduates wishing to study in the United States.
The Ministry of Education Jiangsu Province, the provincial government department in charge of the higher, secondary, elementary and vocational education of Jiangsu Province is announcing its goal to take an active role in providing a comprehensive program “Jiangsu Educational Outreach Programs – USA (including the 2007 US College Recommendation Consortium)” designed to educate the students, parents and counselors about the higher education opportunities in the United States and to provide the information about the US college searching and application process.
The program begins with a group of selected colleges from the US. Our goal is to offer “2007 US College Recommendation Consortium” this summer between June 22-27, 2007
in three cities in Jiangsu Province: Nanjing – Province Capital to cover center area of the Province, Wuxi – the city close to Shanghai to cover the east part of the Province and Xuzhou – the major city in north Jiangsu to cover the northern area of the Province.
PROGRAM INTRODUCTION: The information of the participating colleges will be distributed to the attending students, parents and high school counselors. Introductions and presentations for the US Colleges will be made via DVD/slides/power point, seminar and other formats at the Consortium. Organized information of the US Colleges will be further distributed to the high schools in the province through various channels of schools, associations, and government education departments at the City and Counties level.
Over one hundred of high schools will be involved in the Program and receive organized information of participating US colleges in the Consortium. These high schools are the top schools in both the Province and in the Nation. They send hundreds of their graduates to the best universities in China and other countries every year. Among them, there are:
- Affiliating High School of Nanjing Normal University,
- Nanjing Foreign Language School,
- Jinling High School of Nanjing,
- No 1 High School of Wuxi City,
- Xisang High School,
- Shaoyi High School,
- No 1 High School of Xu Zhou City,
- & more…………..
We expect over 6,000 -- 10,000 students and parents to attend the programs, and expect over 100,000 students and parents to receive the information about your College through our Consortium programs, presentations, and other channels provided by us.
Several conferences and panels will also be held for the US College representatives to meet with the local high schools principals, governmental education officials, representatives of students and parents to exchange information and explore the opportunities to send the best high school graduates from Jiangsu to study in the US colleges.
US College Representatives visit Jiangsu, China:
- We would like to welcome one representative of your college to attend the Consortium.
- International air affairs (~US$1100 round trip), hotel expenses (~US $80/day) will be paid by the US Colleges. We will arrange hotels for you as a group.
- Local transportation within Jiangsu Province will be furnished by the Provincial Ministry of Education of Jiangsu.
- Local educators and governmental officials will meet with the representatives.
- Certain sightseeing and cultural tour will be organized.
- If you choose not to assign a representative for the Consortium, we can also manage well to introduce and represent your college without your representative being on site.
Chinese Students Study Abroad – USA ™ is fully authorized by Jiangsu Education Ministry - Jiangsu Education Services for International Exchange, to carry out this endeavor and related activities for the Ministry in the United States (Authorization Attached).
CSSAbroad™ International Application: A standard web based application system is being developed to make the application process much simpler and more efficient for both Chinese students and US Colleges. Well trained staff will help to process the application and forward the attachments such as diploma, transcripts and letters of recommendation to the US Colleges.
We hope that you will join us in this endeavor. Please review the attached documents, fill in the questionnaire in the confirmation letter, sign and return to us as soon as possible. As shown in detail next page, we need to receive your confirmation by May 18th, 2007. However, the membership dues are not due until June 8th, 2007.
We deeply appreciate your time and interests in our program, and look forward to a long term collaboration with you and your organization.
Very sincerely,
Zack Zhiwu Fang, M.D., MBA
Director
Chinese Students Study Abroad – USA ™
Jiangsu Educational Outreach Programs
(Tel) 001-314-495-2886 (Fax) 001-314-738-9001
Email: fang@cssabroad.org jimxu@cssabroad.org