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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a research scientist, long used to laughing at studies confirming what's obvious to everyone, this is "duh" level of obvious.

Universities have exploited the "racial and socio-economic equity" movement (woke is much pithier, but more loaded) for their own profit, so they can cherry-pick the candidates they want, to reflect exactly what they need, and not what the country needs long-term, which is brains. Universities exist to fund themselves. They do not necessarily seek the most intellectually qualified candidates - they seek to burnish their image, fill their coffers, pander to the well-connected, and sure, accept a handful of top students every year.

In my field, there are more foreigners than Americans. The ones who are prepared to spend years earning PhDs, or MD/PhDs, then work 100hrs a week as post-docs earning a pittance, then work in government-funded research finding a cure for cancer, which hardly ever pays for than 100K a year... those are foreigners. And the brain drain won't last much longer if China and India develop as first world countries and can offer more to their own citizens.

We need to grow our own brains here. We never know who our allies might be in the next war, which high-technology item we'll desperately need to defend ourselves or pass along to an ally. We need all the homegrown brains we can. And university admissions need to reflect that.

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You can have a goal of equity but we will not maintain a high standard of living for everyone in this country if we don’t also pursue and reward excellence. 
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If you look at the CEO’s of most public companies you will realize that this country has no track record of promoting excellence. [/quote]

you won’t find me defending American CEOs, but your comment depends on how you define excellence.  There is excellence that does not mean MIT brilliant in CS.  CEOs are not supposed to be singularly brilliant in a narrow field.  Their job is to be smart enough across disciplines to understand trends and fundamentals and to make connections across them that experts in their fields don’t see. [/quote]

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