I would never have made it to the US with that rule. I had a UK BS(c) in molecular biology, had done 1 year of a PhD at EMBL in computational molecular biology, dropped out to focus on the computers instead. 2 years later, hired on an H1B and emigrated to the US.

6 years after that, I was the 2nd hire at amzn, and the rest is history. Does the Trump admin really want to mess with that kind of story?