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"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 prog
by 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?