Ivy US- China Youth Elite Exchange Program, which was founded by elites of Peking University and Tsinghua University in 2003 at Peking University as a international students exchange and promotion association, is now a program aiming at providing opportunities to those college students or high school students who plan to study in the US or experience advanced American Academy to communicate with professors and elite students of US top Universities.
As China is opening to the outside world, more and more students with international horizon also are going out to study. Many programs, such as Summer and Winter Camp to the US and students exchange program spring out. But these programs are mainly to improve students' language skills while sight-seeing and shopping. Students in those programs have few opportunities to communicate and learn from elites in the US. However, Ivy US- China Youth Elite Exchange Program compensates this deficiency in today’s exchange programs in China. After deep and comprehensive analyze on contemporary students need and current situation in this field in China, Haofei Luo, graduate from Peking University and Lin Zhu, post-graduate students of Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and various elites in Asia-Pacific Area decide to work together to build this beneficial program-- Ivy US- China Youth Elite Exchange Program to bridge Chinese elites and American elites. The founders of this program all had experiences of being trained or studying abroad. They name this program Ivy, because they wanna all the students participating in this program can gain the spirit of independent exploration, the attitude of being open-minded and self-confident, and the remarkable leading ability.
Ivy US- China Youth Elite Exchange Program is different from traditional exchange programs. It aims to broad participants’ horizon through colorful activities. Participants can talk and exchange ideas with outstanding students and business elites in America, visit world famous enterprises and authorized organizations, thus they can better understand America culture. Visiting all these US top Universities like Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University, Columbia University, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCLA is considered as impossible in traditional programs, but Ivy US- China Youth Elite Exchange Program makes it possible. Besides all the advantages mentioned above, Ivy US- China Youth Elite Exchange Program also charges suitable fee, offers various activities in a single day. It is also convenient to apply for a passport here. It is a platform where you can share ideas and thoughts with professors and elite students from all the 8 top Universities in America.
(China.org.cn November 2, 2007)
