对美国高等教育的渴望助推了中国的留学潮（英文）

A Yearning for American Higher Education Has Driven a Surge in Overseas Study in China

Millions of Chinese have dreamed of attending Harvard University.Harvard Girl,a how-to manual1published in 2000 by the parents of one successful applicant,was a national bestseller.Georgia Institute of Technology2,a prestigious university in Atlanta,has enjoyed less name-recognition.Yet this is fast changing：the number of Chinese applicants to Georgia Tech has surged, from 33 in 2007 to 2,309 last year. Some applicants are from the best schools in China, and all are ready to pay around $44,000 （for yearly fees and housing costs） -- the equivalent of nearly ten times the average annual disposable income3 of urban households.