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> How is a family in India going to come up with $40,000 to send their child to a US university for one year? You're kidding right? There are tens of thousands

• graycat 14y ago
  "You only ever see the cream of the crop from India in your US universities... rich kids from wealthy families." No, as I explained, the US NSF long had a program to increase STEM majors by requiring that research grants also support students and, hint, hint, students were available from Taiwan and India. For a while those students made up roughly half the US STEM graduate student populations, were on scholarships paid for by the US NSF, and were rarely if ever from wealthy families. We're talking about the US Federal Government using foreign students and workers to flood the US labor market in STEM fields. Foreign students from wealthy families are a very different matter. For such students, the US has long welcomed them because US foreign policy holds that it is better for the US for such students to have US educations. Since the families are wealthy, scholarships are no doubt small potatoes. E.g., if the student is living in a $3 million condo and getting to school in a new Ferrari, he doesn't need a scholarship. This is difficult material to understand?