Posted on 02/03/2017 2:16:20 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on the truth about one of the factors affecting the rising cost of college for American students. The percentage of foreign students enrolling in both public and private colleges and universities has skyrocketed. Their sponsors, Middle East governments and regimes like China, buy their way into American colleges and universities for their own students, forcing up costs for the dwindling number of Americans fortunate enough to gain admission.
It is estimated that over one million international students are enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities. That figure has doubled in 15 years. The growing international enrollment is crowding out qualified U.S. students.
But the Post, staying true to the liberal/libertarian orientation of its owner, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, tried to play down the serious nature of the problem. “International growth has fostered an increasingly cosmopolitan culture on campuses across the country, with academic benefits for domestic and foreign students alike,” the Post claimed. “It gives colleges an additional path toward ethnic and racial diversity, opening doors to students from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. But it also injects pressure into the admissions scramble that U.S. high school seniors are starting to experience this month as schools release early-admission decisions.”
With that final sentence, the paper alluded to how American high school students are losing slots to foreigners. . .
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http://www.businessinsider.com/does-it-matter-if-irans-leaders-are-us-educated-2014-10
Some REALLY BAD HOMBRES are getting into the country via the F1 Student Visa Program.
Just sayin’
Why would anyone in their right mind want to send their child to a university?
Don’t tell me it is to give their child an education. That’s the last place where you can learn anything useful.
They would get a better education if you sent them to prison.
I believe colleges make more money from foreigners, so another case of $$$$$.
In college admissions, performance should be the only thing that matters.
Why should state colleges and universities actually serve the citizens of their respective states?
Who does those taxpayers think they are?
I’m actually more bothered by unqualified, often barely literate “minority” US students who get into good US universities thanks to affirmative action than I am by qualified foreign students attending American universities, as long as we enforce the foreigners not overstaying their student visas.
Foreigners can pay full price.
A government that serves foreign student before USAians is _not_ a lawful USGov.
Hit the liberals where it hurts. One way is to scale back student visas.
Much easier than dealing with FAFSA forms and doling out scholarships.
Depends what they take. We told our son we’d pay half of his tuition if he majored in engineering, math, physics, chemistry, or accounting. Zero for anything else.
President Trump should consider getting rid of FAFSA. I’m so sorry I ever filled that form out.
I’m sad to note that many international students going to college are helping fund the scholarships of the Americans.
Way back when, when I was at UMASS, the College Republicans did a study on foreigners getting admitted into the school. They proved that kids from Mass were being turned away to make room for the foreigners. And in most cases, the foreigners were receiving all sorts of financial help, courtesy of the Mass taxpayer. None of which had to be repaid. When asked, the President of the school said that he felt bad, but the foreigners promoted diversity. All they really did, was self segregate and were generally, not the friendliest bunch on campus.
Especially medical, engineering, and tech schools.
I lived and worked in Massachusetts in the late 1980’s for two years. Around the state I ran into all the exotic, ethnic and foreign diversity a university president could ask for. At least a portion these groups today are native born and could provide the “diversity” UMass seeks.
It comes down to money - for the colleges - and Green Cards - for the students.
Almost all foreign students pay 100% of their tuition, room, board, and fees.
In contrast, almost all American students qualify for some kind of subsidy.
Also, foreign students often leverage their USA college degree into a permanent residency Green Card.
Once they get a Green Card, “chain migration” kicks in, and it is just a question of time before everyone else in their family will also qualify for a Green Card.
Absolutely, so long as those performers are among those or the children of those who contributed to the taxes that subsidize those schools. Foreigners should be a limited separate admission for any school that receives public subsidies. Citizens should be priority at the risk of losing subsidies. America first, period.
The other immoral thing I’ve seen done on college campuses is where they give slots to foreign students in the name of prestige and money, then give these kids work-study slots so they qualify for in state tuition.
Thus the excuse of “they’ll subsidize Americans” is a lie, and they get priority for work-study programs that could help Americans pay for school, too.
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