Class Project Idea- Aditya Srinivas

  2.Ma, Yingyi. (2020). Ambitious and anxious: How Chinese college students succeed and struggle in American higher education. New York: Columbia University Press. 3. Yingyi Ma talks a lot about how Chinese students struggle to fit into the United States culture when they first come here. She talks about how Chinese education norms are completely different than the one in the United States and talks about the problems with fitting in and uses many examples of things like this. 4.Yingyi Ma is a professor of sociology and she has written other books relating to International Students and Affairs. 5.Anxious- experiencing worry, unease, or nervousness, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. Diversity-the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc. 6.“comes from a well-heeled family-both of her parents are successful entrepreneurs i...

  2.Salikutluk, Zerrin. “Why Do Immigrant Students Aim High? Explaining the    Aspiration–Achievement Paradox of Immigrants in Germany.” European Sociological Review, vol. 32, no. 5, 2016, pp. 581–592., doi:10.1093/esr/jcw004. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/71741941.pdf 3. I mainly used her Aspiration-Achievement Paradox which talks about immigrant student's aspirations versus what they actually achieve. She goes into depth about what causes this and gives us many reasons to believe her. 4.Zerrin Salikutluk works for a university in Berlin and focuses on social science and goes in-depth on immigration and education and she created this article which she published through Oxford University. 5.Paradox-a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well-founded or true. 6." First, immigrants’ estimation of the probability of successfully completing higher education can be biased by a strong projection of...

 My argument talks about why students come to the United States for education and is it worth it financially during the pandemic. I talked about how prices of universities here are rising every year, and with the situation of the pandemic and economic instability all around the world, and even the risk of people traveling. I also talk about the travel bans around the world and how it affects colleges in the United States that usually have a large number of international students. My counterargument would talk about how many universities offer various ways to cope during this time, like online classes from anywhere around the world, and if you go in person there are many clubs or organizations that are built to help new students who just came into the US to settle down. I also talked about how vaccines are being deployed all over the world now and every day the situation around COVID-19 is getting better. “How the Pandemic Is Shaping the Expectations and Decisions of International S...

  One of my cases is about two people that came from China to the US for education here. One of the person background is extremely wealthy and is able to enjoy all the benefits here and talks about their time here and their challenges. The second person's background is of someone who is in the opposite side of the spectrum and is very poor. The story shows a very different account of how she is able to manage here, and how she has to work for everything she has. This case helps me show all the different problems people have when coming here, and how for some it may be easy to settle in, while others this might be their only hope of a better life.

My theoretical frame is something I got from Zerrin Salikutluk, and it is called the Achievement Paradox. This theoretical frame helps me talk about why International Students come to the United States and what they hope to achieve. I use the terms Idealistic Expectations and Realistic Expectations to give two sides of the story of what I am trying to convey. One side like the name is ideal and gives the best possible scenarios for International Students and what they want to achieve. The realistic expectation talks about how your motives change as you get more and more into the culture of US colleges and how that can positively or negatively impact you. I am also looking for other articles and books that help me build onto this idea.