一、留学动机、学校及专业

What is your purpose for the visa?
What will you do in the US? Are you going to study in the US?
What degree will you pursue?
What are you going to study?
Tell me something about your course?
What's the difference between your research now and in the US?
How do you know this University?
Why do you choose this University?
How long will you study in the US?
Have you got any scholarship?
Why do you want to study in the US?
Why do you want to pursue a master/doctor's degree?
Why do you think it is time for you to pursue master/doctorate degree now?
How many universities did you apply? (4-5 universities and list all the names and majors)
Any other school admits you?
When are you leaving for the US? When are you going to the US?

二、过去的情况

1. Do you have a BS/BA/MS/MA degree?
2. When/where did/ will you get your BS/BA/MS/MA?
3. What is your dissertation about?
4. What is your academic background?
6. What is the most difficult class that you have?
7. You got a low score on ****, why?
8. What's your favorite subject and why?
9. What is your TOEFL/GRE score?
10. When did you take the TOEFL/GRE test?

三、以后的打算

1. What is your plan? What will you do after graduation?
2. What is your academic goal?
3. How much do you think you will earn if you come back to China?
4. You can also earn that amount of money in the US, why do you think you won't stay in the US?
5. Give me three reasons that you will come back to China? Why will you come back to China? (Focus on your career plan.)
6. Can you explain why 90% Chinese students didn't come back? So could you tell me why only 7% Chinese students come back after they finish their study in the U.S.?(Don’t judge other people, just say things like you don’t know about their specific situation, the fact that they didn’t come back doesn’t apply to you. You have a clear career plan, etc.)

四、个人情况

Where were you born? (Where is your hometown?)
How old are you?
Are you married?
Have you ever been abroad? When? For what?
Do you have any relatives in the United States? (No!)
What do your parents do?
Do you have sisters or brothers?
Have you ever been to other countries?

五、财务状况

How much is your tuition?
How much is your total cost per year?
Who will fund your study in the U.S? Who is going to sponsor you?
How much will they sponsor you for your future study?
Where is the money from?
What do you parents do?
What are their main duties in their jobs?
How much can they earn for one year? What’s their annual income?

六、其它问题 (optional)

What is your dream?
What is the thing you like best in America, or the thing you like best in China?
Then what is the thing you don't like most in China?
What do you think is the best/worst thing of the U.S?
How long have you been in Beijing/Shanghai?
What's you hobby? What do you do in your spare time?
What is your favorite American movie?
Where is your HUKOU(户口)?
Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend? Where is she? Do you think your girlfriend/boyfriend will keep relation with you during your study in the US?