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Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students?
I am a new graduate student in Computer Engineering. I would like to get my MS and possibly my Ph.D. I have learned that 90% of my department is from India and many others are from China. All the students come here to study and there are only 7 US citizens in the engineering program this year. Why is that? I have heard that many of the smarter Americans go into medicine or the law and that is why there are so few Americans in engineering. Is this true?
The problem is?
The world always needs more lawyers.
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"I have heard that many of the smarter Americans go into medicine or the law and that is why there are so few Americans in engineering. Is this true?"
:)
Yes!
I would give the long answer, but I have to get back to preparing a computer networking paper with my chinese advisor and my 3 chinese colleagues
...there sure aren't as many "americans" here as there used to be. Of course, I mean white anglo-saxon protestant males. A lot more minorities. A lot more first and second generation americans.
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The Rapture happened? I'm still here? Wow, that's strange. I insult God all the time.
'cause he's wondering how the next gen of american CS's will cope with the un-american competition. Imagine a future where most U.S. tech-companies outsource R&D and production to India and china...oh...never mind
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You're like the sixth person to call me out on a typo. Who could have ever guessed that Slashdotters were pedantic nerds with nothing better to do on a Saturday night than correct a minor error? (Strangely enough, I did, correctly, say that the US population was about an order of magnitude less than 2 billion. 300,000 is about four orders of magnitude less.)
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
Who could have ever guessed that Slashdotters were pedantic nerds with nothing better to do on a Saturday night than correct a minor error?
What do you mean ? What else would there be to do on a Saturday night ? By the way, its usually best to leave a space before a question mark at the end of a sentence. You said "minor error?", it should be "minor error ?". Reads better and makes the user experience of reading your sentence that much more comfortable. Thanks.
It looks like a typo to me, and considering what happened the last time I made a typo...
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
Who could have ever guessed that Slashdotters were pedantic nerds with nothing better to do on a Saturday night than correct a minor error?
You mean there are other options? What are these strange things of which you speak?
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Don't blame the poor chap - he was obviously using Excel 2007 for the calculations.
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In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
Moderators? Why, they are the product of the American k-12 system.
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