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Chinese students arrive at UW-Madison with dreams and fears for their future

Eighteen-year-old Xinyi Wang?s bus rolled up to Memorial Union on an August night. After a 14-hour plane ride from her home in Eastern China, then a 3-hour bus trip from Chicago, she stepped onto the UW-Madison campus for the first time. She plans to spend at least the next four years here. ?It is my dream, when I was young, to study in the U.S.,? said Wang, a UW-Madison freshman.