Carrie Zhang never thought she could hack it in an American business school given her limited fluency in English. But when her husband's schooling took them from China to the United States, she decided to brush up on her speech at the local community college in San Diego and give the application process a shot.
Carrie, now an M.B.A. student at the University of California—San Diego, is one of nearly 158,000 Chinese students studying in the United States, according to the Institute of International Education's "Open Doors 2011" report. China, the report states, sends more students to the United States than any other country, with 27.5 percent studying business, the most popular field of study.Moving to a new country for school can be daunting, as Carrie attests to, but there a few things Chinese students can do to help give themselves a leg up during the M.B.A. application process. | 
