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Originally Posted by strupgolf
Interesting to note that many kids with 4.0 gpa's are getting rejected. I see why every time I drive around any campus. Its all the foreign students, tons and tons of them. And why would'nt the schools take them over a kid from middle class america. Its the MONEY, follow the money. The school gets full out of state tution, not the cut rate scewed one from Jimmy. And there'slots and lots of money out there across the ponds with wealthy parents hoping their kid will do well in america. I was at Purdue over thr Thanksgiving holiday 3 years ago, and you would have thought you were in China. Oh well.
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Same thing for out of state (OOS) students at state universities. An OOS student at a UC school pays $45K/yr tuition and the in-state student pays $15K/yr or whatever it is.
There are a couple ways of looking at it. One is that the foreign students (or the OOS students) help subsidize the domestic (or in-state) students. With higher education budget cuts, that money helps. Another is that a significant percent of foreign students stay in the US (or would if they could), add to our talent pool, and become every bit as American as any other American. That's what my dad and his siblings did back in 1950. The other is, of course, that lots of domestic (or in-state) kids with high GPAs/SATs are facing tougher competition for the "top" schools. Maybe that's good training for the competition they will face after college too.