Because of the history of going abroad, many outstanding alumni are all over the major statistics and biostatistics departments in the United States. Once they come to power, it will not only be beneficial to China students, but also mean that statistics majors are strong in applying for prestigious schools and weak in weak schools. Domestic professors must know the strength of domestic schools in statistics and mathematics, and the enrollment naturally tends to be the outstanding students in their minds. Over the years, Meiben (a native of China who was born in Chinese mainland and went to the United States for undergraduate studies) and Meishuo (a native of China who studied for a master's degree in the United States) have also brought a great impact on the application of domestic college students, and the impact will be even greater with the increase of the number in the future.

Some universities in the United States also have a good impression on some non-top schools in China. For example, students from Sun Yat-sen University are very popular in applying to the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University. The reason is said to be that one of the school's senior sisters went to North Carolina State University and got good grades, which cast a shadow on the younger generation in the department. Later, the middle school students got good grades, so the professor in charge of enrollment in the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University found a student majoring in statistics from Sun Yat-sen University.

Excerpted from Warald. You don't know anything about studying in America.