[1][2] Her sister, Chi Che Wang, attended Wellesley College and stayed in the United States to make a career as a biochemist.

[3] Wang attended Mount Holyoke College, as one of the school's first two Chinese students, alongside her classmate Yau Tsit Law.

Law and Wang were officers of the school's small Chinese Students' Club.

[5] In 1917, she earned a master's degree in botany at the University of Illinois,[6] with a thesis titled "Revegetation and Plant Succession along Salt Fork Creek".

[9] In 1925 Wang attended the Conference on American Relations with China, held in Baltimore.