Chu receives a scholar-ship with an income equivalent to US $ 20,000 a year. Chu, who has studied at two other American universities, says that few schools give so generously to the humanities. Some of the science students laughingly refer to the "soft sciences" as the "' parasites 'of the university."
她在此念書，學校給她的獎學金，使她如有「二萬美元的年收入」，曾在兩所美國大學念書的她說，念文科還給你錢的學校不多，「因此理工科學生常笑我們是學校的『寄生蟲』！」