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If those students weren't there it doesn't mean they'd automatically be replaced by local students, there might just be fewer students in class overall. Look on
by logicchains 9y ago
If those students weren't there it doesn't mean they'd automatically be replaced by local students, there might just be fewer students in class overall. Look on the bright side: it's an opportunity to learn and practice what's possibly the most useful language apart from English, and the language of the future as China's industrialisation continues (due to its far larger population, even with e.g. only half the per-capita GDP of America it will still be a much larger economy). Baidu is already leading Google in computer vision. Quite a few of my friends in university were Chinese, and on average they seemed more interested in study and less interested in just boozing their way through university than the average western classmate.
- escherize 9y agoLogicchains, you are aware of how many students are turned down by UC schools yes? It might just be that those folks they turned down would fill those seats.
- fellellor 9y agoThey're probably turned down because they aren't good enough for scholarships and they don't have the money to manage without any aid.
- logicchains 9y agoAs an Australian I'm not aware of this, I was speaking in terms of American universities as a whole. Fewer Chinese enrollments would mean fewer enrollments overall, and less money flowing into the university system (which assuming it isn't all squandered on admin, would reduce research output).
- ericd 9y agoIt wouldn't mean that, the good US universities are supply-constrained.
- msie 9y agoThere are only so many seats available for local students made available by government funding.
- throwawayjava 9y agoIt might also just mean decreasing the quality of the student body. Which means instructors either decrease the quality of education provided, or else fail a bunch of people out (not exactly doing those people a favor...) I don't it's prime facie factual that that admitting fewer foreign students is necessarily a good thing for domestic students.
- hasenj 9y agoLet's lower the standards for out top universities. I'm sure that will not backfire ..
- ariwilson 9y agoWhen you refer to "Baidu leading Google on computer vision" are you referring to this? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538111/why-and-how-baidu-cheated-an-artificial-intelligence-test/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538111/why-and-how-baidu-...