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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will things get better with all the crackdowns on undocumented immigrants and foreign students?[/quote]

Do you not realize, PP, that those people you blame are not really the cause of the problem?  You are being told they are, but that's exaggerated propaganda.

The US has a bigger population than it did 30 years ago.  But many schools have not grown their student bodies proportionately.  And, there is concentrated interest at many schools in certain majors so enrollment is far more competitive for those impacted majors.  Also, colleges are interested in a variety of students from a variety of backgrounds.  This makes it difficult for kids who are slightly less credentialed than the top kids at their high school.  Especially in affluent districts.  There are too many of the same kind of candidate.  As the expression on DCUM goes, "It's the University of Maryland, not the University of Montgomery County".

Few undocumented immigrants are in seats that are coveted by DCUM.  This is just not a realistic competitive issue.  Most of them are far from the DMV (California, Texas, Florida).

https://www.presidentsalliance.org/undocumented-students-in-us-higher-education-june2024/#:~:text=There%20are%20approximately%20408%2C000%20undocumented,before%20the%20age%20of%2017.

I believe that international students should be welcomed at the schools of a world superpower.  I don't have a position on "how many" is the right number.  But I think they only affect American student admissions at the margins.  And they pay handsomely for the privilege, like many out of state students.  They are used to balance school budgets and to support grad student programs existing where there may not be enough domestic student enrollment demand.

I think it's naive to blame these populations for phenomena that have arisen from other sources.  And preventing their enrollment will not solve the problem of being a too-generic candidate from a limited geographic area with a large population of similar candidates.[/quote]

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