(CNN) -- Jay Lin is the embodiment of the American dream -- and what is increasingly a Chinese dream. Originally from Wenzhou in eastern China, he moved to New York City as a teenager. After earning degrees from Ivy League universities -- Cornell and Columbia -- he secured a comfortable job in a bucolic town in Connecticut. Now he is helping others in China follow his path, where the desire for elite U.S. education is alive and well. In the last decade, mainland Chinese have reshaped the international student body at U.S. colleges and universities, notably at Ivy League institutions. In the 2009-2010 academic year, China surpassed traditional "study abroad" heavyweights like Canada, India and South Korea, to lead international enrollment across U.S. higher education, according to the Institute of International Education. The U.S.-based institute's most recent figures reveal that mainland Chinese students increased 23% to more than 723,000 in the 2010-11 academic year.
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Mainland China has led international enrollment in U.S. higher education since 2009
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Mainland Chinese students increased 23% to more than 723,000 at recent count
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Boarding schools, universities desire Chinese students for dollars and diversity
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International curriculum, university campuses setting up in China to meet demand locally
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"A school could easily fill itself with all Chinese students, but no school's going to do that...It's a double-edged sword -- if you have too many @placeholder, then the Chinese will stop coming to your school, and also, Americans will stop coming to your school."
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"A school could easily fill itself with all Chinese students, but no school's going to do that...It's a double-edged sword -- if you have too many Chinese, then the @placeholder will stop coming to your school, and also, Americans will stop coming to your school."
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"A school could easily fill itself with all Chinese students, but no school's going to do that...It's a double-edged sword -- if you have too many Chinese, then the Chinese will stop coming to your school, and also, @placeholder will stop coming to your school."
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"Instead of sending @placeholder students to secondary schools in America or other foreign countries, we want to bring international curriculum into China so they don't need to travel outside the country," Lin said.
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"Instead of sending Chinese students to secondary schools in @placeholder or other foreign countries, we want to bring international curriculum into China so they don't need to travel outside the country," Lin said.
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"My dream is to see international schools in China accessible to @placeholder citizens and other nationalities together in the same school," Lin said.