Ivy League schools have started recruiting more economically diverse students from China after receiving multi-million dollar grants from public and private donors. Chinese billionaire real estate couple, Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin, gifted $100 million to top U.S. universities last year- including $10 million to Yale and $15 million to Harvard - in a bid to help poor students from their home country. The State Department's EducationUSA program also created million-dollar funds to provide aid for overseas students to cover costs such as application fees and transportation to interviews. Financial aid: In this November 20, 2014 photo, Yupei Guo, top, greets friend Serene Silin Li at Yale University - she's one of the Chinese students who has benefited from college's refocused recruitment strategy
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Chinese billionaire real estate couple, Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin, gifted $100 million to top U.S. universities last year
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The State Department's EducationUSA program also created million-dollar funds to provide aid for overseas student
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Nearly 275,000 students came from China last year, 31per cent of all international students, according to the Institute of International Education
Guo, 19, is now a @placeholder sophomore, happily settled among the school's Gothic buildings.