The percentage of undergraduates has been rapidly increasing, from 14.9 percent in 2005 up to 39.8 percent in 2013, while the rate of graduate students went down from 76.1 percent in 2005 to 43.9 percent in 2013, according to the Open Doors Data. Psychologists say that younger students may be less prepared to cope with the stresses of studying abroad.

从公开数据统计结果来看，攻读学士学位的学生人数增长十分迅速，2005年学士学位学生占总留学生的比例只有14.9%，而到2013年却已经激增到了39.8%， 另一方面，硕士学位留学生比例则从2005年的76.1%下滑到了2013年的43.9%。心理学家表示，这些年龄更小的学生们可能还没有准备好应对海外学习的压力。

Chinese student Brad Wang, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, told the Global Times that, "it’s not only the language barrier, it also involves culture difference ... the reason we fail to understand lies in that we have not gone through their childhood."

就读于芝加哥伊利诺伊大学的中国学生布拉德·王告诉《环球时报》，说：“这并不仅仅只是语言上的障碍，也和中美之间的文化差异有关，我们不能够理解美国文化，因为我们没有经历过美国人那样的童年。”

"A smart way to find a shared topic is to learn some American culture, like what cartoons they watch what movies are popular, and try to find the breakthroughs, by starting with mutual topic," Wang added.

他补充说道：“有一个寻找共同语言的好方法，那就是学习一些美国文化，了解他们平时看什么动画、什么电影受欢迎等等，然后通过这些共同的话题来寻找突破点。”

Different teaching methods in the US and China, although often the factor that attracts students to the US system, can also stress students. Whereas Chinese teaching often focuses on rote learning, American teachers prefer to assign open-ended questions and leave ?essays, which requires a lot of practical research and teamwork. Chinese students often have problems working together, and find longer projects that require their own research hard to finish.

尽管一些中国学生会因为截然不同的教学方式而选择到美国读书，但这种和中国完全不同的教育制度有时也会给学生带来巨大的压力。和中国教育强调死记硬背不同，美国老师更喜欢设置一些开放性问题和自由度很高的论文写作，这就要求学生进行大量的实践研究和团队协作。而中国学生经常会在团队协作方面遇到问题，并且难以完成周期很长的自主研究课题。

"Chinese students are shy and silent when they are in group meetings, this is a main reason they get lower scores than local students," said another Chinese student Shu Ting, adding "I think the group meetings are also great opportunities to socialize and learn from local students."

另一名中国学生舒婷(音)说道：“在小组开会的时候，中国学生总是表现得非常羞涩和沉默，这也是为什么中国学生比本地学生得分低的主要原因。我认为小组开会的时候是一个非常好的机会，可以发展自己的社交人脉，同时也能向本地学生学习。”

"Making a reasonable studying plan is very useful," Wang noted, saying that Chinese students have to understand that getting used to an English environment takes time.

布拉德·王说中国学生必须明白一件事，那就是熟悉英语环境是要耗费时间的，因此“制定一份合理的学习计划是非常有帮助的。”