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From: evren@wuibc.UUCP (Evren Senol)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Discrimination against American students???  (LONG)
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Date: 17 Dec 88 21:39:28 GMT
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Reply-To: evren@wuibc.UUCP (Evren Senol)
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One more point about foreign students that I would like to raise.

People have been talking about the *tax* money spent on foreign students
while they attend American universities.  Well, there is one more side to 
that, which is the *tax* money spent on these students by their countries
over 12 to 18 years (grade school to college graduate with MS).  After
other countries spend that much money to educate their citizens, the U.S.
gets the BEST QUALIFIED ones for graduate studies.  Most likely, if the U.S.
were to educate American to the same degree, a lot more money would need to
be spent since a great percentage of the students would just be *average*
ones as opposed to the *more qualified* foreign ones.  So, the U.S. is 
actually saving tax money by not having to educate a large number of
Americans and choose the best ones for graduate studies.

The ease of being able to pick the best qualified foreign students from all
over the world may be contributing to the lack of interest or concrete
action by the U.S. to better its education from grade school onward.


Evren Senol

evren@wuibc.wustl.edu
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