Parents seeking advantages send kids to US schools while young

This year has witnessed an increasing number of young Chinese heading to the United States to study, with growth expected to continue in 2015 even as competition for admissions gets increasingly fiercer.

Nearly 27,000 Chinese students were attending US high schools in the 2012-2013 term, up from about 22,000 the year before.

Li Fengna, deputy director of the US department of Chivast Education International, an overseas study consultancy in China, said there are two main reasons why more Chinese students will head to the US.