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How many of these students are attending elite schools? I agree that more and more Chinese students will head overseas for school, but what real impact does th
by lhuang 17y ago
How many of these students are attending elite schools? I agree that more and more Chinese students will head overseas for school, but what real impact does this have on selectivity?
The elites will always cap the number of internationals they admit, so it would only appear that selectivity will increase for their cohort, but not necessarily the university at large. This of course only holds true if the enrollment cap for internationals is fixed and does not vary significantly year over year.
- btilly 17y agoThe very elite schools? Sure. However what about the merely good ones that want to move up? An interesting data point is the University of Southern California. By extending welcoming arms to the best students they can get from anywhere, they've managed to go from being decent to being top notch. Believe it or not, their SAT scores are higher than UC Berkeley's. Their next goal is to get ranked in the top 5 in the USA in math and science. I doubt that USC will be the last university to try this strategy. And the more universities that succeed at this, the more pressure there is on other universities to try it as well. Particularly if there is a good supply of top notch international students available to try it with.