Re:Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminati...
by 908B64B197 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:12PM
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That's a huge competitive advantage.
Country X gets the top students from country X, the US gets the top students from the world!
That smart TA from X European country helping American undergrads on that problem set? He's not helping undergrads from his country. He's not publishing papers that would boost his country's schools either.
One might ask if the lab he works at would even exist without foreign grad students! Would there be enough native applicants to staff it?
Graduate school isn't a zero sum game. It's an ecosystem and ecosystems have a huge network effect.
Country X gets the top students from country X, the US gets the top students from the world!
That smart TA from X European country helping American undergrads on that problem set? He's not helping undergrads from his country. He's not publishing papers that would boost his country's schools either.
One might ask if the lab he works at would even exist without foreign grad students! Would there be enough native applicants to staff it?
Graduate school isn't a zero sum game. It's an ecosystem and ecosystems have a huge network effect.