Posted on 08/20/2010 11:20:24 AM PDT by epithermal
U.S. students had a much harder time getting into American graduate schools this past year than did their peers from China and the rest of the world. And while 1 year is far from a trend, a new report by the Council of Graduate Schools raises the question of how well Americans stack up against international students.
Overall, the report says, 3% more international students received offers of admission for the 2010–11 academic year than in the previous year. That's the fifth increase in the past 6 years. But the survey from the Washington, D.C.,–based organization also found that 1% fewer U.S students than last year have received acceptance letters. The number of applications rose by 9% for each group.
It's the first time the council has used its international survey to collect information on U.S. citizens, so it's hard to know what the different numbers mean. The report doesn't try to provide an answer, although it highlights the data as "a striking difference."
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That’s the New America: making the world better for everyone ... except Americans.
America isn’t just for Americans anymore. These “Foreigners First” programs really suck.
I’ve often wondered why American students don’t apply to schools in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, North Korea and Indonesia.
It is to promote “campus diversity”, dontcha know.
When you have schools like UC Santa Cruz making it policy that they want minorities to be more than 50% of the students on campus, you have to expect this would follow. (I guess they never looked up the definition of minority.)
What do you think the odds are that once white Americans are the minority that will they be given “minority status”?
It is far far worse than that. It is designed to make Americans slaves in their own country. All helped along by every TV networks which owns every TV channel.
Americans who watch TV or pay for cable or sat TV are paying each month for slavery. If you think that is BS just look at how they ALL support the Imam, Islam and the VICTORY Mosque. Keep watchin TV dhiminis.
When I went to college my University reserved a large percentage of slots in the College of Engineering for foreign students.
This was in the early 80s and while in-state students were paying about $50 per credit hour the foreign student were paying well over $700 per credit hour.
The College upped the reserved seating two years in a row and the competition for the rest was immense. You were not even looked at unless your GPA was over 3.2. The foreign students were accepted into engineering school with the University average, which was 2.2 at the time.
It was all about the money.
I have driven through Santa Cruz and the majority are white libs with some hispanics.
Out-of-state/international $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
A friend of mine has said that it is more common to see foreign instructors in low-level courses than native American-born....as instructed by Department management. At least, in some disciplines.
We used to go there for a few days each summer from Sacramento. I wouldn’t want to live there. We used to call the city council looney toons. I assume nothing has changed.
Santa Cruz recently asked for Federal help because two competing Mexican gangs are fighting over the drug trade there and their police force can’t handle it. The result is spilling over into the liberal community as Santa Cruz has double the US murder rate, triple the US rape rate, and triple the US theft rate. The liberals in that town are learning that you reap what you sow.
I hate to say this but the reason for this probably has more to do with the intellectual laziness of US students vs. the foreign students than it has to do with diversity or PC run amok.
Saudi universities DISCRIMINATE against Palestinian students who are pre-med/med applicants. Have for YEARS.
1. Foreign students pay full tuition plus the out-of-state premium, so foreign students mean more revenue for the school.
2. And foreign students are being chosen from a much more select group of top students, while US applicants likely come from a broader cross-section of all US college graduates.
But most all colleges are in love with quotas, so any college accepting state and/or federal support should be given a quote to limit how many foreigners than can admit. The American system of colleges and universities was not created and developed to serve foreign students and foreign nations.
Nice. I drove through there about 10 years ago and thought it was a cool and quaint surf community. Steamers Lane is right their with HUGE waves. The liberals obviously turned it into a crime filled hell hole.
A bit like San Fran. Gorgeous geography turned into a crime filled cess pool.
It is a good thing the value of US citizenship has come to mean nothing to institutions built by US citizens and dollars.
This professor has never taken a foreign graduate student in spite of receiving hundreds of applications over the years. Call me prejudice, xenophobic, or kook, but to me citizenship has value.
big education, like teachers’ unions, is about money, not education.
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