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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by eitally on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:25AM (#48570222)
When I was in grad school (2008-2011), of the 60 people in my program only 5 were American. The vast majority were Indian or Chinese (~50). I wouldn't say there was discrimination, though. The matriculation statistics were interest-based, mostly. A lot of the Americans who received their BS went immediately to industry.
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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by tennfown on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:29AM (#48570298)
My understanding this is because being a grad student is hardly an economically good deal for a typical American student, but for the sort of foreigner who can afford to send their child to school in the US, it can still be valuable.
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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by Schlagbohrer on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:40AM (#48570447)
During my engineering grad program I was fascinated by the gender disparity among americans (almost no women) versus the nearly equal gender balance among engineering grad students from India, the Middle East (including Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia), and China.

The engineering gender imbalance seems to be almost unique to the USA. Countries with awful records on women's rights sent just as many women to get PhDs as men.

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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by arjie on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @11:07AM (#48571567)
Others have observed this as well, but it is considered a disputed finding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox
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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by stainablesteel on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:44AM (#48570501)
yeah most people are normal human beings, im saying the discrimination happens in getting admitted into the program
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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by alchemism on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:53AM (#48570604)
My 1.8 GPA is literally discriminated-against, too. So unfair!
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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by stainablesteel on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:51PM (#48573110)
it's more like skin color, ethnicity, and religion
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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by whyagaindavid on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:16PM (#48573476)
Who is the one that discriminates? You mean the white american prof?
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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by irishcoffee on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:31PM (#48573706)
My undergrad program in the late 2000s had very, very few white profs.
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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by whyagaindavid on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:32PM (#48573734)
are they Americans?
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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos by irishcoffee on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @06:20PM (#48577762)
You’d hafta ask them I suppose, if they’re alive. This was over 2 decades ago. My guess is no.
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