Sounds similar to the story of the Palestinian Harvard student a few weeks ago. The university pulled a few stings and they were allowed to enter and return to school.
I suspect the same thing will happen here. That is unless, these Chinese students had run afoul of the Chinese government and were sent back upon the Chi-Coms request. If that is the case, we will never hear from them again.
Oh 😮 didn’t think about that possibility! :(