Posted on 04/05/2016 9:30:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
High school seniors are eagerly watching their mail this month, hoping for the "fat envelope" indicating acceptance by the college of their choice. Unfortunately, more American students are receiving the "thin envelope" because college acceptance rates are continuing their decade-long decline.
The most selective public colleges, such as UCLA and Michigan, now take one out of six applicants, compared to one out of three a decade ago. Top private colleges, such as Stanford and Harvard, admit one out of 20 applicants, compared to one out of 10 a decade ago.
What explains the steady decline in college admission rates for America's best high-school students? Is it really true that the percentage of high-school graduates who are prepared for college keeps getting smaller?
One reason for this trend is the huge increase of students from foreign countries, especially China, who are admitted to study on American campuses. The numbers of Chinese and other foreign students who go to college in the U.S. is truly mind-boggling.
The University of Illinois has 5,000 Chinese students on its Champaign-Urbana campus, compared with less than 100 a decade ago. Students from the People's Republic of China made up a tenth of last year's freshman class.
California has more U.S.-born Chinese students than any other state, but its public colleges nevertheless admit huge numbers of students from mainland China, including 1,200 at UC Berkeley (up from 47 a decade ago) and 2,200 at UC San Diego (up from 70). Of the nearly 1 million people living in the United States on F-1 student visas, about 360,000 are from China.
Why did U.S. universities decide to open their doors to foreign students? Follow the money. Foreign students usually pay full tuition rates, which could be two or three times more than American students pay.
Like any business seeking to exploit a new profit opportunity, the higher education "industry" has hired more Chinese-speaking staff in order to recruit more students and cater to them after they arrive on campus. Some U.S. universities even hold pre-departure orientations in China.
The lure of higher tuition has tempted state colleges to lower their admission standards for foreign and other out-of-state students. The California State Auditor recently found that the average SAT scores and grades of out-of-state students were lower than those of in-state students, and that state universities had rejected 4,500 Californians whose test scores and grades were good enough for out-of-state and foreign students.
Chinese students do seem to have plenty of money to spend, and not just for tuition, room and board. Many drive expensive cars and wear fashionable clothing, which makes them stand out among typical American college students.
While an American kid might drive a beat-up Toyota handed down from an older member of the family, Chinese students seem to have no problem affording a new Audi, BMW or Lexus. In the Boston area, which has 44,000 foreign students attending dozens of colleges, the 12,000 Chinese students are often seen driving Maseratis, Lamborghinis, and Range Rovers.
At Michigan State in East Lansing, where 4,400 Chinese students are enrolled, Chinese students accounted for 10 to 20 percent of a luxury car dealer's entire sales. Chinese students provided 8 percent of the sales of a luxury car dealership near the University of Oregon at Eugene, and 5 percent of sales by a luxury dealer near the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
In case you're thinking that Chinese students must be some of "the best and the brightest" who provide the brainpower needed by America's engineering schools, nothing could be further from the truth. Most Chinese students have no better than average ability, and many do not speak, write, or understand English well enough to contribute significantly to the academic community.
A professor of Chinese history at New York University told the Wall Street Journal that students from China often pose a "burden" on her lectures, which she has to modify for their benefit. Many Chinese students "are woefully underprepared," she said.
WholeRen Education, a U.S. company that caters to students from China, reported that some 8,000 Chinese students were expelled from American universities last year, mostly for poor academic performance or cheating. "Chinese students used to be considered top-notch," a WholeRen executive said, "but over the past five years their image has changed completely -- wealthy kids who cheat."
The Reuters news service has just published an in-depth examination of Chinese cheating on college entrance exams such as the SAT, which is administered in China under license from the College Board. In many cases, actual test questions and even entire test booklets were found on Chinese web sites or used by Chinese cram schools.
Some Chinese families aren't waiting to send their kids off to college in the U.S., but are starting much earlier. About 35,000 K-12 students from China, some as young as 10 years old, now live in the U.S., many paying non-resident tuition to attend U.S. public schools.
Question is how many of the Chinese students are there on full or partial scholarships?
Chinese students pay full tuition, room and board. That’s why colleges love them, and you will see that many private high schools are also admitting more and more Chinese students also. They generally work hard, don’t complain, and come from a culture that respects education - so the private schools don’t need to do anything special for them.
What’s driving this? Nearly every rich (or corrupt) Chinese government official or crony-capitalist businessman wants to have one foot outside of China “just in case.” They still trust and respect the USA and western anglophone culture (oddly, more often than we do), so want to have their kids here (Australia, New Zealand, and UK are also popular.
In a big country like China, there definitely are people for whom money is no problem either.
Eagerly participating in our own destruction.
Another unintended consequence of “college for everyone” welfare - US students are now 2nd class citizens in their own country because it is more profitable for colleges to import full fare students.
Hint: Read the article.
I have personally found many things to like and admire in the Chinese people I have known.
They were all very hard-working. They were all very family oriented. They all truly valued education and learning.
And I certainly can’t blame them for wanting to escape that repressive regime back home. The owners of my local Chinese restaurant are Christians, and I think things were very rough for them back home.
From China? No idea, and honestly, no care. But odds are none are on scholarship from Chinese sources. Again, little to no reason to. Why spend hundreds of thousands to send them to the US on a scholarship when a local university could do the job for a fraction of the price.
If we are being entirely honest, most of these Chinese students are paying for the free rides at US universities for US students. By paying inflated tuition (compared to ‘local’ students), they are giving the university extra cash to pay for scholarships for ‘disadvantaged’ (and local) students.
I think the better study would be what happens to that large percentage of those who fail college - do they actually return to China as their visas are conditional on attendance? I'm going to wager a big no on that; that these inflated payments to colleges is just for a quick immersion program in American culture whereupon they'll slip into jobs in the local economy (mostly working for Chinese companies.)
I suppose the only place this answer hides is buried deep in ICE records as to the number of arrests of Chinese citizens with student visas who are deported. And even then, that would just be a very tiny fraction, as most Chinese (most people for that matter) don't commit crimes that would bring them to the attention of ICE.
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Somebody is going to have to pay for educating all of those illegals.
I know quite a lot about this subject - I have friends in private education, and I also lived in China for a period with my work.
Education (and immigration) have become BIG business in China. In secular, mony-grubbing China, of course there have arisen scores of “education broker” companies, whose job is to get kids assigned to schools overseas, and arrange housing, etc... all for a fat fee, of course.
As China’s culture of money and materialism has risen (thanks, ironically to communism), some of the children of the wealthy have indeed become spoiled and entitled. Chinese Christians tend to come from the poor and rural. They come to the USA as workers or illegals. Its really fascinating - probably not much different than early Christians in Rome. The secular government generally ignores them, unless they become too organized or become a political problem. Then the communists will crack down.
Ivory Tower greed runs a university indeed.
>> Read the article <<
Cut it out. You can get zotted for reading the articles.
If you put this together with the “Panama Papers” disclosure that seems to be increasingly about Chinese high-level officials, you start to see the picture of how globalism looks from the Chinese perspective: rich Chinese people with one foot in China (to tap a corrupt, government-connected, probably slave labor generated cash flow of some sort) and one foot in America (where there kids go to school and where they’ll end up once the gravy train over there gets disrupted somehow).
Most wish to stay in the US after graduation .
In fact, many wealthy and influential Chinese parents send their children here to Americanize them and provide a base in the United States in case they need to flee China
They are an asset if we can retain them
That us one reason why the H1B visa program is so important. It allows the United States to cherry pick the best foreign talent when they graduate from school
These students dont steal jobs from Americans because they are typically on the cutting edge of technology and are creating job positions that previously did not exist in emerging new technologies.
America faces difficult challenges and we can use all the talent we can get.
These foreign students help provide that talent and each one of these students creates at least 10 job openings for other Americans
It’s kind of our guarantee that if the ChiComs ever fancy going to war with the US, we’ll have plenty of their best and brightest on our side.
The reason why I asked the question was because when I went back to college as an adult, I started out at a community college just to get my feet wet before I went to the university I eventually graduated from. I was waiting for a friend outside the counseling offices and one counselor had his door open and was speaking with a black student from Africa. I heard him essentially pleading with this student about going to this one certain college that was going to hand him a $100,000 scholarship. For some reason the student was balking. Still don’t understand what happened. And yes I did read the article. You don’t like someone asking a questions?
I’m just funin’ ya.
In these days of trumpitis it is hard to tell.
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