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I want to build a better artificial leg for my mom and that is why I want to study in the US

Stories people say to get a student to USA:

Just how closely Chinese students strategise over the Internet on how to get visas to America — at a time when fewer are being given for security reasons — was revealed to the embassy recently when on one day one consular officer had scores of students come through with the same line, which some chat room had suggested would work: ‘‘I want to go to America to become a famous professor.’’ After hearing this all day, he was surprised to get one student who came before him and pronounced, ‘‘My mom has an artificial limb and I want to build a better artificial leg for my mom and that is why I want to study in the US.’’ The consular officer was so relieved to hear a new line that he told the young man: ‘‘You know, this is the best story I’ve heard this morning. I really salute you. I’m going to give you a visa.’’

You guessed it. The next day every other student who showed up at the embassy said he or she wanted to go to America to learn how to build ‘‘a better artificial limb for my mother’’.

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