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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is so wrong with universities abroad? Everyone boasts how strong schooling is overseas compared to America, what the heck happened to their university systems?[/quote]

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Meaning what?[/quote]

meaning that upper classes and strivers abroad see american universities as prestigious even when they have perfectly respectable and in some cases superior schools at home. similar to american parents here, who are obsessing about elite colleges, they want to join the emerging global "elite". but since they are not in the US, their standards are a bit more lax so even (in the eyes of american parents) less prestigious US schools are perceived as superior to their own schools.

there was actually never less reason to go to school in the US because knowledge has become much more accessible. faculty abroad is much more knowledgeable, publishes in top journals etc, than in the years past. but, paradoxically, students are now flocking to the US to study. some parents are selling their own homes for tuition at "podunk u".

i know this because i am an immigrant. the number of people asking me to advise their teens on how to go to school in the US has skyrocketed. my kids also know some kids from my home country - these are young kids and tween who know nothing about the world yet they already know that "they want to go to harvard". i personally know several such kids.[/quote]

Funny anecdote: DC and I attended a virtual Bennington tour that had an open chat page. Nearly everyone on the call was from Europe or Asia, and it was a normal EST time of day. This may not be indicative of the usual, however, because they all wanted to be writers....

Thanks, Donna Tartt and Tik Tok. [/quote]

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