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Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by recroad on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @11:29AM (#45504371)
You're assuming that there weren't enough spots for Americans and that they were getting denied due to foreigners. That's not true. For Americans who want a college education and don't get one is mostly because of the cost of education, which foreign students subsidize.

This is a classic case of shooing yourself in the foot only because of a fear of the foreigner.

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Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by nxm on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @11:35AM (#45504459)
Maybe too many were threatening to and intimidating Jewish students over the past 2 years?
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Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by oceansky on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @11:38AM (#45504515)
This is a completely made up problem, there is no systematic persecution of Jews anywhere in us universities.
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Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by chronic74939 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @11:33AM (#45504433)
> This is a classic case of shooing yourself in the foot only because of a fear of the foreigner.

You having only one foot is fine, if the foreigner has zero feet and cannot even stand.

Example: smart young people are unable to innovate in India.

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Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by symlinkk on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @12:23PM (#45505167)
I thought colleges only had a limited number of slots to accept students each year. Seems like US citizens would be competing with foreign students in that case.
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Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by UncleMeat on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @08:36AM (#45515481)
For most colleges the number of available slots is not constrained by some absolute limit but is instead constrained by their income available to pay for all the people and resources needed to educate these students.

Further, the most competitive universities artificially constrain acceptance rates because low acceptance rates make them more desirable.

Imagine we passed a federal law banning the children of parents who make more than $150,000 annually from attending college. Would this just mean that colleges take their same planned slots and give them to lower earning students? No. It'd be massively disruptive and change the available slots.

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