Americans study art and other subjects that seem to favor an easy sailing or somehting they “Like”. Injuns and asians in general study what will get them employed. Or they study what their parents tell them to.
Face it, engineering and physics and math (building blocks of how the world works) isn’t something you can party all night and still manage to pass the next day.
There is no quota for foreigners. Most Graduate students in any US engineering program got there because of their ability to learn and their willingness to teach under graduates. The schools pay foreign grad students to come work/study there. There are a million restrictions (like having to work in the department you are studying in, and minimum number of credits you need to take per semester and what not) and yet its over run by immigrants.
This trend of “studying what you like” is as cute as the dodo bird. Soon it will bring down the whole country as we lose ground to every other nation on earth. I am talking this as a father of a 4 year old who I dont believe will ever get the education he needs in high school to work his way through an engineering program if things dont change. I studied math and physics and chemistry and biology and every damn thing under the sun, liked it, didn’t have a choice and I had to keep at it inspite of failing at it if I wanted to have a roof over my head and food to eat (OK OK not that bad) but what I wasn’t realising was that, I was failing at a higher and higher level. Then I realised, I have a 50% success rate. Then much much later I realised they were teaching me 400% of what I needed to live in the world. I studied Civil engineering and now work as a software engineer. Case closed. Less than 25% of my time in Under grad was spent doing Computer science. More than enough to make a difference in your life.
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