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You are insulting and ignorant. My husband has medical training from France and the selection there is:

SIX percent.

Not 50%.

He works at NIH alongside other competent doctors from all over the world, and they all survived much more rigorous selection than the one here in the US.

Same for scientific research: I went to grad school here to join my husband, and the PhD students in my department were majority foreign. The American students were unfortunately much less knowledgeable and prepared than their foreign counterparts, and PIs (tenured researchers with their own labs) always preferred foreign students to work in their lab. Stipends were the same, it was purely a competence issue.

You are confusing money with abilities. Just because the US is the wealthiest country on earth, it doesn’t follow that its education is the most rigorous. Foreigners come here because US universities are well-funded, and Ivy league diplomas are recognized. But their foundational learning is much stronger because their home countries place more emphasis on K-12 and undergrad education.

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